OUTDATED! Please look at: https://portableapps.com/node/16779
Application: PortableApps.com ™ Updater
Category: Utilities
Description: Holds Your PortableApps up to date.
Download PortableApps.com ™ Updater 1.0 Beta 1 [1.2MB download / 1.4MB installed]
(MD5: 799b7ee6bc264042e8595cab6d8e69c3)
Features
PortableApps Updater is an update tool with features like:
- automatic update of all hosted Apps
- multi-language support (offers the right localized package/informations depending of the selected language)
- built in md5sum check for the offered packages
- Support of all packages in paf format (Installer and 7-Zip packages)
- Configuration with ini (over config page), support for profiles
- built in support for randomized mirror servers
- built in support for http and ftp sources
- built in support for the Sorceforge and OOoDev mirror network
- proxy support (Windows Proxy by default, own proxy server, no proxy)
- proxy authentification
- add. parameters for wget
- personal blacklist (block update offers for unwanted Apps)
- recommend packages / make packages mandantory
- support for local or private web based (other servers than PortableApps.com) Application management
- self update support for the updater
It uses GNU Wget Version 1.11 as a binary version found on: http://wget.addictivecode.org/
(This version was compressed with upx --best --compress-icons=0 --crp-ms=999999 in order to save space.)
Learn more about GNU Wget
... in the Wget manual
... in the Wget Wiki
More about GNU wget...
Release Notes:
Version 1.0 Beta 1 (2008-0-04):
(db now hosted on portableapps.com thanks to John)
This version will fix the following issues:
- New icon, thanks a lot to NeoRame!!!
- Kill downloads without canceling the installer by closing the download window
- Support for different profiles (over ini see default settings.ini for details)
- support for up to 100 apps now
- no mirror randomize for sf hosted apps, sf randomizing now
Version 1.0 Alpha9 (2008-05-04):
(not Beta1, until the last issues fixed...)
This version will fix the following issues:
- Version check fix
- new icon (thanks again to Zé Pedro)
- Configuration page over /SHOWOP parameter only
Version 1.0 Alpha8 (2008-04-28):
(not Beta1, cause there was no new statement of John...)
This version will fix the following issues:
-
GUI (with multi-lang support) to change all settings (including target path and
proxy settings) - no run checkbox in the installer (really Smiling )
- better version check (only packages with higher version number than local)
- Proxy authentification support
- only packages for installed Apps as default
- license page and directory page removed
- new icon (thanks again to Zé Pedro)
- support for paths with blanks
- smarter database structure closer to appinfo.ini
- show version description instead version number)
Version 1.0 ALPHA7 (2008-04-10):
This version will fix the following issues:
- calculating size of selected packages
- prev and next button components page fixed (prev shows Welcome page, next checks if a App is selected)
- better size/style for components page
- Proxy authentification support
- use dynamic download banner instead fixed splash
Version 1.0 ALPHA6 (2008-04-07):
(ALPHA5 inclomplete upload)
This version will fix the following issues:
- Standard installer
- Change self update function
- enable restart for interupted download (wget )
Version 1.0 ALPHA4 (2008-04-04):
This version will fix the following issues:
- app.ini fix
- show local version information
Version 1.0 ALPHA3 (2008-04-03):
This version will fix the following issues:
- License- Welcomepage (show only once)
- updater.ini format closer to app.ini
- better function for component page preparation
- new icons (thanks to ptmb)
- self update support for the updater
- Defaults changed (packagedir set to $TEMP, pdel=true)
- Fix Path to license.txt
Version 1.0 ALPHA2 (2008-03-12):
-
Fix width of component page (thanks to John
)
- Defaults changed (packagedir set to $TEMP, pdel=true)
- Fix Path to license.txt
Version 1.0 ALPHA1 (2008-03-12):
- initial relase (it is stable but ALPHA for several reasons)
Version 1.0 1.0 ALPHA1 (2008-03-12): Initial release
Many thanks to Simeon for first tests, feedback and all the answers releated to questions and requests for this tool in the forums :-). Thanks to John (and all the contributors) for the installer and to the translators for the needed strings.
You'll find the older entries here:
https://portableapps.com/node/12722
https://portableapps.com/node/12584
https://portableapps.com/node/12040