Maybe this (general idea of auto update) could work both ways... so that via punres you could have a page and check one of your domains and see all the mods running and what version.

This would make more sense if you run 13 different punbb installs. I currently run about 11. lol.
But if you did have lots them you could have a single page on punres that covers updates for all your domains.

An idea... havent looked at or even thought about how it would be applied.

Are you thinking of an automated solution, where PunRes would magically detect this? That assumes all the mods you installed are done via PunRes. And that PunRes could identify a unique install of PunBB. Certainly possible with an extension, but not (as far as I know) without one.

This would make more sense if you run 13 different punbb installs. I currently run about 11. lol.
But if you did have lots them you could have a single page on punres that covers updates for all your domains.

An idea... havent looked at or even thought about how it would be applied.

That would help, 8 seconds per call to a server is a fairly long time, even if it is necessary. 7 extensions could equate to almost a minute!

That's if none of the 7 servers responded within 8 seconds. Quite unlikely.

A potential optimization would be to check if there are multiple extensions that check for updates against the same domain and if there are, group them together into one call.

Plus of course when you have more than a few extensions installed  - oops sorry preaching to the converted.

Would it be better to make this an on demand check rather than making it automatic. If many different servers are to be checked then the possibility of a very slow page is introduced.

Whether to do it automatically or not will of course be optional.

The current plan is to add a new optional field to the extension manifest that points to a location where PunBB can fetch update information about the extension (kind of like what Firefox does). We haven't decided on whether this should just be a simple text file with the latest version or if it should be an XML file. The latter would take a little more effort from the extension author, but it would also be more useful. It could, for example, contain a link to download the new version of the extension.

As this is still in discussion.

Would it be better to make this an on demand check rather than making it automatic. If many different servers are to be checked then the possibility of a very slow page is introduced.

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have never downloaded/tried it though.

Also dont post question that have nothing to do with the topic.

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Also dont post question that have nothing to do with the topic.