[Sparkle] Sparkle Prefpane Interface

[Martin Redington]

On 8/6/07, Andy Matuschak <andy at andymatuschak.org> wrote:
> > The mac way would be to never auto-update, unless the user has
> > explicitly asked for that, The default should be to ask before
> > updating anything.
>
> Really? All that control seems more the Linux way to me. I mean, I
> wouldn't do all this without asking. I'd probably start by asking
> something like "hey, do you want to just update everything
> automatically?" at the start, and go from there.

I think that would be acceptable, and I can see that some people would
prefer auto-updates.

Having had a look around, it looks like FireFox and Eclipse both offer
auto-update functionality without user intervention, so there is some
precendent, although these are both "ports" in some sense from other
systems, where autoupdate is more common.


> Even if there's
> complexity, it needs to be simple for users who want simplicity. Heck,
> I'm a developer, but I still just want it to go do its thing and not
> bug me.
>
> I guess it does make sense not to update if you're in the middle of
> something critical. Maybe I've just gotten lucky in not using apps
> that have broken updates.
>
> How do the rest of you feel about this? Is so much control really
> necessary? I recognize this is kind of a biased sample since we're all
> developers here, but I might as well ask.
>
> - Andy Matuschak
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