# Copyright (C) 2011-2014 Bastian Kleineidam # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along # with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. """ Function to check for updates. """ import os from .configuration import Version as CurrentVersion from .url import get_content from distutils.version import StrictVersion # Use the Freecode submit file as source since that file gets updated # only when releasing a new version. UPDATE_URL = "https://raw.github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker/master/linkchecker.freecode" VERSION_TAG = 'Version:' if os.name == 'nt': URL_TAG = 'Windows-installer-URL:' else: URL_TAG = 'Source-Package-URL:' def check_update(): """Return the following values: (False, errmsg) - online version could not be determined (True, None) - user has newest version (True, (version, url string)) - update available (True, (version, None)) - current version is newer than online version """ version, value = get_online_version() if version is None: # value is an error message return False, value if version == CurrentVersion: # user has newest version return True, None if is_newer_version(version): # value is an URL linking to the update package return True, (version, value) # user is running a local or development version return True, (version, None) def get_online_version(): """Download update info and parse it.""" # prevent getting a cached answer headers = {'Pragma': 'no-cache', 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache'} content, info = get_content(UPDATE_URL, addheaders=headers) if content is None: return content, info version, url = None, None for line in content.splitlines(): if line.startswith(VERSION_TAG): version = line.split(':', 1)[1].strip() elif line.startswith(URL_TAG): url = line.split(':', 1)[1].strip() url = url.replace('${version}', version) return version, url def is_newer_version(version): """Check if given version is newer than current version.""" return StrictVersion(version) > StrictVersion(CurrentVersion)