ATTENTION DO NOT USE THESE: new binaries in the Downloads section

placed fake binaries that update themselves where old versions updating will search for the new version

devscripts/transition_helper.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys, os
+
+try:
+    import urllib.request as compat_urllib_request
+except ImportError: # Python 2
+    import urllib2 as compat_urllib_request
+
+sys.stderr.write(u'Hi! We changed distribution method and now youtube-dl needs to update itself one more time.\n')
+sys.stderr.write(u'This will only happen once. Simply press enter to go on. Sorry for the trouble!\n')
+sys.stderr.write(u'The new location of the binaries is https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/downloads, not the git repository.\n\n')
+
+try:
+	raw_input()
+except NameError: # Python 3
+	input()
+
+filename = sys.argv[0]
+
+API_URL = "https://api.github.com/repos/rg3/youtube-dl/downloads"
+BIN_URL = "https://github.com/downloads/rg3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl"
+
+if not os.access(filename, os.W_OK):
+    sys.exit('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % filename)
+
+try:
+    urlh = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(BIN_URL)
+    newcontent = urlh.read()
+    urlh.close()
+except (IOError, OSError) as err:
+    sys.exit('ERROR: unable to download latest version')
+
+try:
+    with open(filename, 'wb') as outf:
+        outf.write(newcontent)
+except (IOError, OSError) as err:
+    sys.exit('ERROR: unable to overwrite current version')
+
+sys.stderr.write(u'Done! Now you can run youtube-dl.\n')