[Sparkle] Disabling Sparkle

[Andy Matuschak]

Sadly, there isn't a way to disable Sparkle with a simple compiler  
flag: you can't just remove the framework, the updater is actually  
archived in the app's main menu .nib, so when it tries to unarchive,  
it'd break. I've made a ticket for this:

http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/ticket/34

- Andy Matuschak

On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Randall Wood wrote:

> I am a package maintainer for the MacPorts (http://www.macports.org)  
> project. MacPorts, as well as Fink, build and install packages  
> inside a package management framework that Sparkle interferes with.  
> At MacPorts, we would like to be able to distribute, and have had  
> requests to distribute, some applications that include Sparkle.
>
> Is there an easy way to disable the Sparkle updater when we are  
> building the packages that we distribute, or is this currently  
> something that has to be done on a package-by-package basis?
>
> The problem with Sparkle in a managed environment is that when the  
> application gets updated, the package manager finds that the updated  
> files no longer match the checksums associated with them and then  
> fails to update, install, or uninstall the packages that were  
> installed in the managed environment in the first place.
>
> --
> Randall Wood
> rhwood at mac.com
>
> "The ball is round. The game lasts ninety minutes. The rest is  
> theory..."
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