[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Patches-776297 ] Add version check to plugin

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Patches item #776297, was opened at 2003-07-23 09:58
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Category: Outlook
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Summary: Add version check to plugin

Initial Comment:
Many questions on the spambayes mailing list are 
answered with "first, make sure you are using the 
latest version of the Outlook plugin".  This patch
allows people to check to see if they are up-to-date.

Before incorporating this, please change the URL
of the page which contains the version number! :-)


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>Comment By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Date: 2003-07-27 08:30

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Here's another version.  This uses re.search to extract
the BinaryVersion value from the remote copy of
Version.py and compares it with the local value.


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Comment By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Date: 2003-07-27 08:17

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Okay, idiot that I am, I have it simply importing the file I
downloaded.  That obviously has some serious security
risks, so I will change it so that it simply pulls the version 
information from the file as if it was pure data.

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Comment By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Date: 2003-07-26 19:37

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Here's an updated version of just checkversion.py which
assumes the remote file is the latest version of Version.py.
I haven't tried this on Windows (I'm at home).  I'll leave it
for Mark to pronounce on.  Mark, if you want me to check
it in, let me know what URL you want it to fetch.


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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2003-07-25 20:03

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Yep, binary version would be what you should compare against

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Comment By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Date: 2003-07-23 20:06

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That sounds fine to me.  Is the BinaryVersion element (currently
0.5) the item to compare with?  I was looking through the
Outlook2000 directory for "005".

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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2003-07-23 18:22

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How about we put on the web server the latest version of
"spambayes\Version.py" - we could then parse it locally and
extra more metadata (such as the new release date etc).  The
code could also be generally useful for all spambayes apps.

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Comment By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Date: 2003-07-23 10:37

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> ...Or maybe that would just hammer the website too much ;)

Plus 'twould have been beyond my nascent Windows programming
skills...


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Comment By: Adam Walker (xenogeist)
Date: 2003-07-23 10:30

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Maybe checking the version at startup in a seperate thread 
(along with an option to disable the check) and only show 
the message if a new version is availible could be added. ...Or 
maybe that would just hammer the website too much ;)

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