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74 lines
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What is WinGup?
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WinGup is a Generic Updater running under Windows environment.
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The aim of WinGup is to provide a ready to use and configurable updater
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which downloads a update package then installs it. By using cURL library
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and TinyXml module, WinGup is capable to deal with http protocol and process XML data.
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Why WinGup?
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Originally WinGup was made for the need of Notepad++ (a generic source code editor under MS Windows).
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During its conception, the idea came up in my mind: if it can fit Notepad++, it can fit for any Windows program.
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So here it is, with LGPL license to have no (almost not) restriction for integration in any project.
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How does it work?
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WinGup can be launched by your program or manually. It reads from a xml configuration file
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for getting the current version of your program and url where WinGup gets update information,
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checks the url (with given current version) to get the update package location,
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downloads the update package, then run the update package (it should be a msi or an exe) in question.
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Who will need it?
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Being LGPLed, WinGup can be integrated in both commercial (or close source) and open source project.
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So if you run a commercial or open a source project under MS Windows and you release your program at
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regular intervals, then you may need WinGup to notice your users the new update.
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What do you need to use it?
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A url to provide the update information to your WinGup and an another url location
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to store your update package, that's it!
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How is WinGup easy to use?
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All you have to do is point WinGup to your url update page (by modifying gup.xml),
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then work on your pointed url update page (see getDownLoadUrl.php comes with the release)
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to make sure it responds to your WinGup with the correct xml data.
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How to build it?
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Before building WinGup, you have to build curl lib.
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Launch your Visual Studio Command Prompt then go to wingup\curl\winbuild, then launch the makefile:
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*cd wingup\curl\winbuild*
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*nmake /f Makefile.vc mode=dll*
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Once curl lib is generated, you can use VS2005 to build your WinGup.
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To whom should you say "thank you"?
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Don HO
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<don.h@free.fr>
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