[Sparkle] Update window opens despite current version

Andrew Merenbach andrew.merenbach at ucla.edu
Thu Jul 5 13:03:54 PDT 2007


Hi,

Setting sparkle:version="1" in my enclosure tag did the trick.  I had  
thought that if one used the sparkle:shortVersionString, one wouldn't  
need to use sparkle:version.  I appear to have been incorrect in that  
assumption.

Thanks for the guidance, Andy.

Cheers,
	Andrew

On Jul 5, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Andy Matuschak wrote:

> I'm confused; are you not incrementing CFBundleVersion on new  
> releases? At least in theory, each version of your program really  
> should have a different CFBundleVersion. If this is the first  
> release with CFBundleVersion of 1, try setting the attribute  
> sparkle:version to "1" on the appcast item.
>
> - Andy Matuschak
>
> On Jul 5, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
>
>> Hi, everyone.
>>
>> I'm not sure what the best search terms for Google or elsewhere would
>> be, as my problem doesn't seem to have any unique terms in it.  Thus
>> I ask it here: I have a program with CFBundleVersion equal to 1 and
>> CFBundleShortVersionString equal to 1.3.6--and in my appcast, I have
>> the title "Version 1.3.6 (3 bugs fixed; 3 new features)" and a
>> download link with the file name "DiceX_1.3.6.dmg"; I have also tried
>> setting the sparkle:shortVersionString to "1.3.6".
>>
>> Now, when I run my program, I get the update window--but my program
>> *is* the current version.  I have tried modifying the pubDate to set
>> it long in the past, but to no avail.  If I set the CFBundleVersion
>> of my program to "2", then the update window does not show up.  But
>> the current version is meant to have a "1" for that value.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea of what I might be doing wrong?
>>
>> Cheers, and thanks,
>> 	Andrew
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