JT Hamelin Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 What's the best way for a scrpt to check and see if there's a newer version of itself? I want to distribute a free product which offers a free service to its users. However, I am hoping to support it later with advertisements. I need the product to check for updates to it's main script from time to time so that when I start using ads, the older models of the product will be updated as well as the new ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiija Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 http://www.free-lsl-scripts.com/cgi/freescripts.plx?Category=Updater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizmut Smit Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 For the longest time I had a twitter account that just announced a UUID (of the prim hosting the new script). The scripts released would check the twitter account for updates and then contact the host prim when an update was found. When Twitter started messing with their API's I dropped that method though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnMarie Otoole Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 The best way is an off-world database using http access. You can automate the process with an off-world database that recoreds all the owner UUIDs and object model numbers then use an in-world script to distribute the latest version to all customers with expired version numbers. Scripts in the object can access the database periodically to get your latest advertising information. Doing it entirely in-world is not so easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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