Autoupdater

[adigyran]

Implement some sort of auto updater to server, for easy distribution

[Eirenliel]

Server autoupdate

[loucass003]

What are the main ideas for this?

Should also only the server updates itself. Or should it also update the new GUI with it ?
Maybe both could have their own self-update cycle separatly ?

[Eirenliel]

it should be one thing along with the driver

[loucass003]

So Driver Server Gui ? Or only Driver Server ?

[Eirenliel]

everything. also overlay.

[Eirenliel]

and the feeder if it's still separate from the overlay when it's ready.

[loucass003]

What is you reasoning behind this ? Because i think having separate updates could be pretty usefull. Like being able to update the gui without he server or the overlay without the server

[Eirenliel]

Eh, it's basic usability? Don't forget that end-user is not a DIY person who wants everything configured and run multiple versions of everything. One update process should update everything there is to update.

[TheDevMinerTV]

Also remember that would have to insure that the protocol between all the applications is backwards compatible, otherwise this would be a pain in the butt to use.

[Eirenliel]

Why would it be a problem, all things should be updated simultaneously with this.

[TheButlah]

I will attempt to tackle this - I'll be starting by building a cli tool to install the overlay. I'll be modeling it after rustup, where it manages a set of components with versions, and we have channels (like stable) that dictate the versions for each component.

The existing MSI installer will call into the CLI, so we retain the nice UX of the installer while removing the need for so much windows-specific msi scripting. This also gives the advantage of having the same installation logic on windows, mac, and linux, and the ability for automated installation scripts on linux distros.

Likewise, the server and/or gui can initiate a call to the cli tool to ask it to update slimevr. We can choose whether to do this at start always (like discord), or prompt the user first (like signal).