🔍 MiloDB: Finding Old Teases

[FrozenWolf]

MiloDB 2.3.0, 2024-01-31

• Database: Updated to 2023-10-31

[FrozenWolf]

MiloDB 2.4.0, 2024-02-29

• Changed: Upgraded PyInstaller to 6.4.0
• Database: Updated to 2023-11-30

[PlayfulGuy]

MiloDB 2.4.0, 2024-02-29

• Changed: Upgraded PyInstaller to 6.4.0
• Database: Updated to 2023-11-30

Thanks for the update!

Just downloaded the binaries, but the link for the source gives a 404 error.

PG

[FrozenWolf]

MiloDB 2.4.0, 2024-02-29

• Changed: Upgraded PyInstaller to 6.4.0
• Database: Updated to 2023-11-30

Thanks for the update!

Just downloaded the binaries, but the link for the source gives a 404 error.

PG

Oops! Thanks for letting me know. I made a deploy script to automatically publish the packages but I put the src package into the bin directory by accident.
It's fixed now.

-FW

[FrozenWolf]

MiloDB 2.5.0, 2024-03-31

• Database: Updated to 2023-12-31

The 'update' command will make a reappearance at some point; I'm overhauling it at the moment to make sure it really does work properly before adding it back in.

[FrozenWolf]

MiloDB 3.0.0, 2024-04-30

• Added: 'update' command to perform self updates
• Database: Updated to 2024-01-30

The '

update

' command is back by popular demand! (well, one person asked for it once). I've rewritten quite a lot of it to make sure that it actually works on both Windows and Linux. When the next release is available, it should be just a case of running '

update

' and it'll show you the change log and ask you if you want to update. The mechanism is capable of updating combinations of the application, database, and supporting files. Similar to the other commands '

help update

' will give you some more information.

If you run the '

update

' command at the moment, it should tell you that you have the current version. If it doesn't, please let me know.

[FrozenWolf]

MiloDB 3.1.0, 2024-05-31

• Fixed: Help text of 'update' command had rogue linefeed and full stop
• Changed: 'query' command can now match against partial dates
• Changed: 'update' command re-uses remote connections
• Changed: 'update' command verifies integrity of downloaded assets
• Database: Updated to 2024-02-28

Querying against partial dates

When performing a query, you can now use shorthand forms such as:

    query date = 2023

    query date = 2023-6

    query date = 2023-06

    query date = 2023-6-8

    query date > 2023

    query date > 2023-6

etc.
I'm sure you get the idea.
Thanks to trusfrated for the suggestion a loooong time ago.

Updating

If you have version 3.0.0, you should be able to update using the '

update

' command.
Please let me know if it works or doesn't work, and which operating system you use. I'm also very interested in any feedback related to your experience of the update process. Thanks!

[Carnal1]

If you have version 3.0.0, you should be able to update using the '

update

' command.
Please let me know if it works or doesn't work, and which operating system you use. I'm also very interested in any feedback related to your experience of the update process. Thanks!

Just used the update command and seemed to work flawlessly. Windows 10, Firefox. The only comment I have is it opened & closed 3(?) command windows as it progressed and seems maybe would be good to not have them close in case of a problem or to just be able to more easily see what actions had taken place, or perhaps save the actions in a log.
I'm very much appreciative of all you do with MiloDB as I find it useful quite often.

[FrozenWolf]

If you have version 3.0.0, you should be able to update using the '

update

' command.
Please let me know if it works or doesn't work, and which operating system you use. I'm also very interested in any feedback related to your experience of the update process. Thanks!

Just used the update command and seemed to work flawlessly. Windows 10, Firefox. The only comment I have is it opened & closed 3(?) command windows as it progressed and seems maybe would be good to not have them close in case of a problem or to just be able to more easily see what actions had taken place, or perhaps save the actions in a log.
I'm very much appreciative of all you do with MiloDB as I find it useful quite often.

Great, thanks for the feedback!

Performing an update of the currently running application under Windows is a bit tricky. Most commercial applications either have a separate update application or rely on a system wide-update system system like Windows-Update. The only reliable mechanism I could find to do the update under Windows was to make a temporary copy of milodb.exe, launch that to perform the update (which opens a new console, waits for the existing application to close, then updates the files), then that will launch the new application (in another new console, which waits for the temporary application to close, then cleans up the temporary copy). I did try to keep the same console window, but had all sorts of problem due to the way that Windows applications inherit console handles.

Updating under Linux is much easier due to the ability to fork a new process to replace the existing process and keep the same console, so it looks a lot cleaner.

Your suggestion of the log file is a good one. I'll have a look at producing a log that each stage of the update can contribute to so that the whole process is logged.