Menu option to 'check for updates'

[AcrossCanadaTrails]

Hi,
I think it would be great if there was an option in JOSM to automatically check and download the latest version of the program, as well as have a 'full install' version where all of the available plugins were automatically included in the setup.
This way, each time you start JOSM it will be the latest version.

I know i have know idea how to do this myself, so it's just a 'wish list' item :)

Thanks,

[skyper]

I wrote a bash script several month ago, and a cron job running it. It is somehow unfinished and maybe needs a bit of rework, but it is running without a problem. I might upload it these days.

At least on a Linux system, it is not that easy, if you have JOSM installed under /usr and not in the users directory (especially without sudo installed).

By the way, is there a possibility to get the JOSM revision from the .jar file without running java. (Java does not run without home dir).

Cheers skyper

[stoecker]

unzip -c dist/josm-custom.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF |grep Main-Version

[skyper]

Replying to stoecker:

unzip -c dist/josm-custom.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF |grep Main-Version

No Main-Version in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF.

[stoecker]

Sorry works only for SVN version. Use unzip -c josm-latest.jar REVISION|grep "Last Changed Rev" for release version.

[skyper]

Replying to stoecker:

Sorry works only for SVN version. Use unzip -c josm-latest.jar REVISION|grep "Last Changed Rev" for release version.

Thanks.

[skyper]

Replying to skyper:

I wrote a bash script several month ago, and a cron job running it. It is somehow unfinished and maybe needs a bit of rework, but it is running without a problem. I might upload it these days.

I did some small adjustments and you can find it under:
​http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Skyper/JOSM_update_script

[stoecker]

You can remove the grep in the revision check, when you do the same with awk later on :-)

[skyper]

Replying to stoecker:

You can remove the grep in the revision check, when you do the same with awk later on :-)

Thanks that was left from changing the check methode and I did copy some code twice - fixed.

[stoecker]

I forgot to state this as wontfix: The installation procedures for the systems are very different. Under Linux usually you have RPM/DEB packages, for Windows the installer and so on. JOSM does not want to reinvent the wheel.

I can only suggest to use Linux (e.g. openSUSE) and then you get JOSM updates automatically whenever one is available :-)

[skyper]

Replying to stoecker:

I can only suggest to use Linux (e.g. openSUSE) and then you get JOSM updates automatically whenever one is available

:-)

Thought Gentoo is the only distribution that is building from source.