Upgrade your users

Test it live: https://github.com/nxxm/example-upgrd-app

Installing upgrd

nxxm keeps your deployments up-to-date for you, add upgrd to .nxxm/deps:

{
    "nxxm/upgrd" : { "@" : "v0.0.3" }
}

Add to your app main function the following:

#include <upgrd/upgrd.hxx>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {

  // Download Releases out of GitHub Release Page Assets
  upgrd::manager up{
    "github-account",
    "your-github-repo",
    "v0.0.1",
    argc,
    argv,
    std::cout
  };
  up.propose_upgrade_when_needed();

  return 0;
}

Relies on GitHub Releases to distribute always the newest version to your users.

Publishing Releases

Look at an example: https://github.com/nxxm/example-upgrd-app/releases

• Add a zip file with your binary to a GitHub Release. Simply add in the zip name respective to each platform : * windows * linux * macOS
• Add a SHA1 sum in the body of the release for each archive : archive-name.zip:SHA1XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX