[Thrawn2]

does https work for updater configs?

[Dr. McKay]

Originally Posted by Thrawn2 does https work for updater configs?

I don't think so, but I could be wrong.

[GoD-Tony]

Originally Posted by Thrawn2 does https work for updater configs?

No. Only HTTP (port 80) is guaranteed to work across all extensions.

[danielmyst777]

I'm currently using this with SMAC and everytime I download the builds off of the smac dev. site, they get overridden by updater with a prior build that updater recognizes as the "most recent". How can I stop it from overriding these builds I download?

[TnTSCS]

As Tony explained to me in a different post, the updater assumes you want the latest official release so it will grab those and overwrite what you have.

If you're only using this plugin with SMAC, and you want to use dev builds, then disable Updater... unless there's a cvar to disable updates for certain plugins that use Updater

[Dr. McKay]

Originally Posted by TnTSCS As Tony explained to me in a different post, the updater assumes you want the latest official release so it will grab those and overwrite what you have. If you're only using this plugin with SMAC, and you want to use dev builds, then disable Updater... unless there's a cvar to disable updates for certain plugins that use Updater

To the best of my knowledge, Updater itself doesn't have a cvar to disable certain plugins, but you could request that the SMAC team implement it.

[TnTSCS]

Instead of disabling Updater, I guess you could set sm_updater to 1 so that it only logs if an update is available - then, after you're done testing what it is you're testing with SMAC, just change sm_updater back to 3 or whatever you had it previously set to.

[GoD-Tony]

If you plan on testing dev builds of any plugin that uses Updater, you should just disable Updater for that time. I think it's best to leave it that way without adding extra configuration.

[TnTSCS]

Originally Posted by GoD-Tony If you have released a plugin that uses Updater, post a link to it in this thread. I'd like to take a look at it!

Very well. I added Updater feature to my SniperRestrict plugin

Let me know if I did something wrong or if I could do something better

I use DropBox to host my files it's free and it works

On a side note. I had put SMAC in a sub folder (SECURITY) and when it updated, it placed the updated SMAC files in the PLUGINS folder and left the old ones in the PLUGINS\SECURITY folder - I had two of each SMAC plugin running

[GoD-Tony]

Originally Posted by TnTSCS Very well. I added Updater feature to my SniperRestrict plugin Let me know if I did something wrong or if I could do something better I use DropBox to host my files it's free and it works

Looks good, and I'm sure others will find the dropbox idea useful too.

Originally Posted by TnTSCS On a side note. I had put SMAC in a sub folder (SECURITY) and when it updated, it placed the updated SMAC files in the PLUGINS folder and left the old ones in the PLUGINS\SECURITY folder - I had two of each SMAC plugin running

Ouch, I may have to add a variable to use with the Updater file format. Something like this:

"Files"
{
  "Plugin"  "Path_SM/plugins/{this}.smx"
  "Source"  "Path_SM/scripting/plugin.sp"
}

The web path would be directly in the plugins directory, and then the local path would be wherever they stored it.