One could write an extension that looked through your installed scripts and tried to search the internet to find their page on userscripts.org, and then download the latest version and compare it, then if there was a discrepancy could probably provide you an easy notification of this, that at least the latest version was different than what you're using, to manage your own updates for you. I could probably develop something like this for you with enough incentive. I'm not sure I'd be the first one to build such a thing. Several scripts already built in their own update detection functions, perhaps you could recommend to the authors of the particular scripts that they add this functionality to each script.
I'm not sure about building this into greasemonkey per say, since userscripts.org already has a method of fetching and detecting upgrades, and there are already several ways to include this in your script, and building this function into greasemonkey as you recommended is confounding because userscripts.org is the official repository but it's by no means definitive https reference, automating anything is inherently dangerous. It's not the only repository, there would need to almost be some centralized update authority or some way to authorize where to look for updates as they are released. And then there's the issue of not wanting to PUSH out updates to current users until some time has passed to allow for ample testing of the new release. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:47 PM, samz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello GM dev. team, > > Could you add a feature to update the installed scripts? > Similar as the update function for FF addon. > > I really don't like the userscripts doing this. > Thanks and regards. > samz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "greasemonkey-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<greasemonkey-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en.
