[Sparkle] Alternative enclosure download urls

[Andy Matuschak]

Yeah, just set at sparkle:version attribute on the enclosure to the  
version number. There are more details in the documentation that comes  
with Sparkle under section IV.D.

- Andy Matuschak

On Jun 23, 2007, at 3:05 AM, Andrew Bush wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Im attempting to use the sparkle framework in my application, thanks
> btw, it rocks.
>
> Ive got the framework working as advertised.
>
> One issue I have is that rather than having to have a separate
> download file for each version I would like to have one download file
> myapp.zip and just have the enclosure attachment for each new version
> point to that same file.
>
> this will save some space on the host, make managing the files
> somewhat simpler and (I hope) also avoid any possible issues with out
> of date urls lingering throughout the great interweb.
>
> some quick testing seemed to show that using the same, unversioned,
> filename for each enclosure fails with the message:
> Can't extract a version string from the appcast feed. The filenames
> should look like YourApp_1.5.tgz, where 1.5 is the version number.
>
> which is precisely as the documentation instructs :)
>
> so..is it possible to change a setting somewhere to allow this
> behavior?  or is it built into the framework so Ill need to hack at
> the source to get it?
>
>
> thanks for any help.
>
>
> Yours cheerfully,
>
>
> Andrew Bush
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