[Sparkle] New Checking Behavior

Martin Redington martin at mildmanneredindustries.com
Sun Dec 23 08:26:41 PST 2007


Can I second that request. A preference key or something to keep the
old behaviour would be great.

On Dec 23, 2007 1:25 PM, M. Uli Kusterer <kusterer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 22/12/2007, Andy Matuschak <andy at andymatuschak.org> wrote:
> > Also, I don't like the very first thing I see when I launch a new app
> > to be "can I check for updates plz?". Sparkle won't ask for permission
> > until the second launch now.
> >
>
> Andy,
>
>  Can you make Check at Startup an option? I ship boxed software, and
> occasionally dealers sell very old versions of the software since they had
> the old boxes still in stock and they're eligible for the upgrade anyway. In
> that case, I really want users to see that they got an old version, so they
> can update immediately.
>
>  If I don't do that, users would have a very bad out-of-the-box experience,
> if they're running 10.5 and got a version of my software that doesn't run on
> 10.5 and crash.
> Cheers,
> M. Uli Kusterer
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