selfupdate

Documentation

Overview

Package selfupdate upgrades the running casa binary from GitHub releases.

Index

• func Latest() (string, error)
• func LatestThrottled() string
• func Newer(current, latest string) bool
• func Upgrade(tag string) (string, error)

Functions

func Latest

func Latest() (string, error)

Latest returns the newest release tag, e.g. "v0.1.0".

func LatestThrottled

func LatestThrottled() string

LatestThrottled is Latest with a 24h on-disk cache, for background checks that shouldn't hit the network on every run. Returns "" when unknown.

func Newer

func Newer(current, latest string) bool

Newer reports whether latest is a strictly newer release than current. Dev and go-pseudo builds (anything that isn't a vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH semver) never compare newer.

func Upgrade

func Upgrade(tag string) (string, error)

Upgrade downloads the release build for this OS/arch and atomically replaces the running binary. Returns the path that was replaced.