We implemented that trick for Windows in Stack, which you can see at: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/blob/c3e05b3b4c3649aa6c182eaf6611... On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Ivan Perez wrote:

Hi Pieter

Not recently, but back when I tried this for keera-posture, I had difficulties with one binary substituting itself *on windows*. If the file was being executed, I could not erase it.

(keera-posture did check a URL for new versions.)

You can download a setup program that you can run without user intervention, closing your main program while it updates. Some installation building systems support unattended updates/installations.

Otherwise, what you can do is to *rename* the current executable, store the new one in place of the old one, and erase old executables every time you start the app. Yes, it's a hack.

It would be great if we could have automatic updates of programs from remote archives using the package manager like on linux :(

Ivan

On 15 February 2017 at 14:36, Pieter Laeremans wrote:

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Hi there,

Has anyone experience suggestions with writing self updating binaries for windows ? I have a small utility that I have to install on two "unmanaged" pc's, I would like to let the program check an url, for new versions, download a new versions, some how check that the program is valid (with a build in key, or certificate) and replace itself when necessary.

Has anyone already done this in Haskell? Any suggestions, links ?

Thanks,

Pieter -- Pieter Laeremans pieter@laeremans.org _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.

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