[squeak-dev] Sparkle automatic update framework for Squeak OS-X

With some funding help from Impara I built a plugin to enable the use  
of Sparkle to receive update information about the macintosh carbon VM.
This lets you auto-update your Squeak based application by pushing  
update notifications via rss to users.
Numerous one-click squeak based apps come to mind...

Based on feedback and experience reports at some point I will consider  
if this should be part of the mainstream Squeak Carbon VM.

http://www.squeaksource.com/Sparkle.html

Which contains the plugin source, the class based interface, and of  
course SUnits.

A 1.0.0 plugin can be found via the usual places in the experimental  
directory as
SparklePlugin.1.0.0.bundle.zip

http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html


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2008/11/19 John M McIntosh <[hidden email]>:
That's very nice. Is there any analoguous frameworks for different
platforms e.g. Windoze & Linux.
I could help with making a windows port of it.
There's a couple of things which regularily auto-update themselves on
windoze: FireFox and Flash player.
It would be nice to have it for squeak as well.

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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

Heh..
I just read some Q&A about Sparkle..
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Is there anything similar for the Windows Platform?

Is there anything similar to Sparkle for the Windows Platform?
 Andy Matuschak said on 2008-09-05:

Not that I know of, sorry.
 pdamoc said on 2008-09-05:

Is there a diagram on how Sparkle works just in case someone wants to
implement it?
 Andy Matuschak said on 2008-09-05:

No, but it's really a pretty simple framework: ~5kloc. A simple scan
of the codebase should give a pretty good idea.
 pdamoc said on 2008-09-05:
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the last phrase makes me cough.. 5kloc to implement simple framework? :)


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