Allow PatchMyPC to update Zotero by publishing up to date file versions

catsadmin

'The binary for the application doesn't provide a valid file version we can use to perform detection's. See below for example this is for the version 5.0.83, but you can see they don't update the binaries properly'

https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-382?utm_source=idea_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=subscribers_status_change

bwiernik

It’s not clear to me why you would want an external service to download and install updates for you here. Zotero already includes an automatic updater.

dstillman

In any case, we have a ticket for this, though I'm not sure when we'll get to it.

adamsmith

But is there any reason for Zotero not to do this? Seems most other apps do specify their version numbers in their metadata, including Firefox.

dstillman

No, it's just a fluke of how Zotero is built — we use a modified version of the Firefox executable that's only updated periodically rather than on every build. I just added a link to the GitHub issue to a command-line tool we might be able to use to modify the .exe dynamically.