[Sparkle] New Checking Behavior

Andy Matuschak andy at andymatuschak.org
Sun Dec 23 09:57:24 PST 2007


Yeah, that's a case that makes good sense, Uli. I'll just have the  
default being second launch.

- Andy Matuschak

On Dec 23, 2007, at 7:25 AM, M. Uli Kusterer 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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