Check for updates

[mottosso]

Goal

Notify user on available update, potentially perform one in the background.

Implementation

At startup, check for commits made since the currently checked out version on disk, and show comments made per commit. Like what a GitHub pull-request does.

1. Start Launcher
2. Checking for updates in the background
3. If found, pop up window
4. Update
5. Automatically restart Launcher

[mottosso]

Here's how to list commit comments.

import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.github.com/repos/mindbender-studio/core/compare/9af05268f...f805b2dc1f")
for commit in response.json()["commits"][::-1]:
    print("[%s]: %s" % (commit["sha"][:6], repr(commit["commit"]["message"])))

# [f805b2]: u'Merge pull request #134 from mottosso/locations\n\nLocations'
# [9f5c82]: u'Gracefully handle transition to using locations'