* By default, stable will only update to stable, and nightly to nightly
Authored by: Grub4K, bashonly, pukkandan
Co-authored-by: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
* [youtube] Fix `--youtube-skip-dash-manifest`
* [build] Use `$()` in `Makefile`. Closes#3684
* Fix bug in 385ffb467b
* Fix bug in 43d7f5a5d0
* [cleanup] Remove unnecessary `utf-8` from `str.encode`/`bytes.decode`
* [utils] LazyList: Expose unnecessarily "protected" attributes
and other minor cleanup
Using https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade
1. `__future__` imports and `coding: utf-8` were removed
2. Files were rewritten with `pyupgrade --py36-plus --keep-percent-format`
3. f-strings were cherry-picked from `pyupgrade --py36-plus`
Extractors are left untouched (except removing header) to avoid unnecessary merge conflicts
* Automate more of the release process by animelover1984, pukkandan - closes#823
* Fix sha256 by nihil-admirari - closes#385
* Bring back brew taps by nao20010128nao #865
* Provide `--onedir` zip for windows by pukkandan - Closes#1024, #661, #705 and #890
Authored by: pukkandan, animelover1984, nihil-admirari, nao20010128nao
Closes: #335, https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28488, https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/5810, https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/5994
In windows, a running executable cannot be replaced. So, the old updater worked by launching a batch script and then exiting, so that the batch script can replace the executable. However, this caused the above-mentioned issues.
The new method takes advantage of the fact that while the executable cannot be replaced or deleted, it can still be renamed. The current update process on windows is as follows:
1. Delete `yt-dlp.exe.old` if it exists
2. Download the new version as `yt-dlp.exe.new`
3. Rename the running exe to `yt-dlp.exe.old`
4. Rename `yt-dlp.exe.new` to `yt-dlp.exe`
5. Open a shell that deletes `yt-dlp.exe.old` and terminate
While we still use a subprocess, the actual update is already done before the app terminates and the batch script does not print anything to stdout/stderr. So this solves all the above issues
The updater now uses `.update.run_update` and not `.update.update_self`.
Although I don't expect anyone to be using the updater via API, a wrapper `update_self` is provided for compatibility just in case
