[Sparkle] Thinking about unifying Sparkle...

[Martin Redington]

On 8/6/07, Jerry Krinock <jerry at sheepsystems.com> wrote:


> * Apple's model (Software Update, iTunes podcast updates) is that the
> user has no control, and not even any view, of the time of day when
> "check for updates" happens.  So every now and then my son will be
> playing some online game, and he comes to me complaining that "My
> ping is up to 999.  Your %$#@! Mac must be downloading podcasts
> again!"  We're living with it, and apparently this is good enough for
> Apple, but realize that some people might like control over or at
> least visibility of the scheduled "check" time.

I don't use podcasts, but for SU, you can set it to manual checks. The
checks themselves should be quite lightweight even when automated,
unless you ask SU   to automatically download, but not install, the
updates.