[Sparkle] Sparkle and preference panes

[Jonas Witt]

Only until the user renames or moves the application. You have no way  
to ensure the correctness of the symbolic link since you can't hook  
into System Preferences startup and the user won't necessarily run the  
application before wondering why the PrefPane doesn't work.

Jonas


On 25.11.2007, at 14:12, Christopher Atlan wrote:

>> how to you deploy the .prefPane currently? I'd suggest you bundle
>> the .prefPane inside the .app (so it will get updated by Sparkle) and
>> have some method to check whether the copy of your .prefPane in
>> Library/PreferencePanes is up to date - you can do that on startup;  
>> no
>> impact if it's up to date, if it ain't, you can replace it (ask the
>> user first).
>
> What about just install a symlink to Library/PreferencePanes so when
> the application gets updated also the .prefPane gets updated.
>
> Christopher