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Build self-updating Golang programs

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2013-07-21 · latest 2023-06-04

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  1. It utilizes https://github.com/inconshreveable/go-update , which updates itself by replacing its executable file with the new version downloaded from Keygen's API (which handles checking if an upgrade is available). The new version will…
  2. …go-update[1] looks to solve the problem by making it easy to create self-updating Go binaries. [1]: https://github.com/inconshreveable/go-update
  3. …everyone to update every other day. I've open sourced the code to do it as a separate library ( https://github.com/inconshreveable/go-update ), and I'll be writing a blog post about the techniques necessary to make it work. Stay tuned!