A very basic and lightweight updater used to update an application's executable very simply. It uses simple QMessageBox to guide the users throughout all the steps. It can be used if your application isn't complex and only updates its executable each iteration
Warning : This project is pretty much unmaintained. You can use it as a basis to understand how to do a simple updater, but it will most likely stay as is.
The updater will refuse to execute if it's called standalone without any arguments. So to use it for your projects you must compile it and adapt it to your project.
- Already translated in French and English
- Won't start if the users tried to execute it standalone
- Lightweight (executable is 200 ko in size, only need QNetwork.dll and bearer plugins to work)
- Error handling (gives the user an insight of what happened).
- Progress bars throughout all network requests (because the user wants to know when something is loading, and if it's finished soon)
- Simple system
Please have a look at the UpdaterHandler class.
If you want to compile you just need Qt (version 5.2.0 or above is required)
To compile it, run qmake and build
This software is licensed under GNU GPL version 3. You can find the full text of the license here.