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Originally Posted by dunhill
Thank you so much for the tips, Kovid! I really appreciate you taking the time to point me in the right direction.
Automating the installation via msiexec and hdiutil sounds like the perfect path to make the experience seamless. I will definitely look into the update-on-osx script for inspiration.
For now, I'll focus on making sure the download process is 100% stable across all platforms with the current manual steps, and then I'll start working on full automation for the next major release. Thanks again!
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A long time ago I got a bat script posted by @eschwartz that automated calibre updates using Windows Task Scheduler. Like @Kovid said, it uses
msiexec. The task was set to run this script everyday, and install it silently if a new version is found.
Code:
@echo off
calibre-debug.exe -c "import urllib.request as u; from calibre.constants import numeric_version; raise SystemExit(int(numeric_version < (tuple(map(int, u.urlopen('http://code.calibre-ebook.com/latest').read().decode('utf-8').split('.'))))))"
if %ERRORLEVEL%==0 (
echo calibre is up to date.
) else (
calibre.exe --shutdown-running-calibre
msiexec /passive /i http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/win64
)
P.S.: If Windows determines a restart is needed, it will do that automatically, so I set it up to run at night.