Check for updates does not work on GitHub yet

[butler]

The "check for updates" functionality was pointing at sourceforge. It now points to the GitHub? release repo but the script that does the work needs to be fixed.

Also, for those with any prior release how do we set sourceforge to tell them that there is a new version?

[butler]

check for updates now works as before on sourceforge. However it relies on setting the verion in master/sasview.latestversion simultaneously with the official release. On GitHub? we can use

  https://github.com/SasView/sasview/releases/latest

which will re-evaluate to:

  https://github.com/SasView/sasview/releases/tag/vx.x.x

where x.x.x is the latest taged release. We should be using this instead. But this may be for the next release?

[butler]

The code we want to use is:

   import urllib2
   req = urllib2.Request('https://github.com/SasView/sasview/releases/latest')
   res = urllib2.urlopen(req)
   print res.geturl()

which currently returns (prints)

   https://github.com/SasView/sasview/releases/tag/v3.0.0

then just return everthing after tag/v. Is this where re package would be useful?

[trnielsen]

New check_update in gui_mamager.py has been pushed to Github. The new method is implemented as suggested in Ticket #443. And the set_up_exe.py has been changed so that the module ‘_ssl’ in now included. Works on the ESS Win7 build server and on my local bare OSX and Win7 VMs.

[smk78]

Known Issues section of 3.1.0 Release Notes updated.

Website faq.html also updated with instructions for Win 7 users and committed to repo. NB: But this is not currently being pushed to the server at UTK for some reason .

[smk78]

Changes now pushed to repo.

Think we can close this ticket now!