In built updater

[engine9]

Would be nice to have an in built updater when running sabnzbd from source.
Update could be done the same way sick beard or couchpotato do, pulling the source from github.

thanks

[shypike]

It's not that straightforward.
We use a less linear development model than the other packages.
Some introducing incompatibilities all of a sudden.
We prefer to have explicit release moments.
You can always write your own little script that does a "git pull"
before starting SABnzbd.

[engine9]

i might do that, but it would be nice to have it integrated in SABnzbd.
Pulling the master should be safe, right?

What about a config option to enable or not the in-built updater (at your own risks)?

[shypike]

Pulling the master should be safe, right?

Very safe, but also very uninteresting.
Currently the master is at 0.6.9.
0.6.10 is in a separate branch because it contains some stuff which would
give heavy merge issues when we later merge in "develop" (when that delivers 0.7.0).

[engine9]

oh ok.
now i get it. I thought you were merging everything in your master branch for each release.

We'll stick to the package release then.

thanks.

[water1309]

I would also like to have the option to update sabnzbd from the app itself. I have it running on a home server and now I have to RDP into my machine just to update sabnzbd. Is it possible to have this set up like sickbeard or couchpotato? I'm not running source by the way, I use the windows builds..

Thanks.

[shypike]

On Windows auto update is rather complicated.
You have to deal with the fact that most of the time SABnzbd doesn't
have the permissions to update itself. Especially not when running as a service.

[water1309]

I see how that would complicate implementing that feature...

However, seen as it would probably only need some code copying, not a bad feature to (optionally) include. I can't imagine my set up is really unique.