[Sparkle] Crashes of recent Sparkle svn on 10.3.x

[Brian Webster]

I experienced some similar crashiness on 10.3.9 a while back and  
posted to the list about it, but didn't receive any reply.  Here's my  
original post:

http://lists.andymatuschak.org/pipermail/sparkle-andymatuschak.org/2007-November/000157.html

I never was able to figure out the root cause.  The code itself looks  
perfectly innocent, and for some reason it's only the Sparkle  
framework that has problems.  For instance, I have a couple of my own  
frameworks that I compile and link to my app, and they have no  
problems at all.  Comparing their build settings, I couldn't see  
anything different there either.

I fiddled around commenting out various lines of code that were  
crashing, and it would inevitably just end up crashing somewhere else  
in the update process.  The only common theme I could pick up was that  
every crash seemed to happen on a line that referenced a constant  
NSString.  I have no idea what that means, but my best guess is that  
it may have something to do with the new linker that's in Xcode 3.0.

My current workaround is to do my final build on Tiger instead of  
Leopard.  My next workaround will be to dump support for Panther. :-)

--
Brian Webster
bwebster at mac.com
http://homepage.mac.com/bwebster/

On Feb 19, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Julian Mayer wrote:

> hello all
> two weeks ago i released updated versions of my projects with Sparkle
> revision r117 (instead of the 1.1 release) because i had been getting
> occasional crashreports that seemed to stem from Sparkle, and 1.1 is
> quite old and seemed deprecated anyway.
>
> since then i've received nearly 300 crashreports from users on 10.3.9
> which all showed the same crash in isRunningFromDiskImage ->
> propertiesForPath -> dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys
>
> here is the backtrace: http://pastebin.ca/910292
>
> in the hopes of fixing these crashes i released other updates a few
> hours ago, including Sparkle r128 which i have modified to omit the
> isRunningFromDiskImage-check to fix the crash.
>
> however once again crashreports from the 10.3.9 users are coming in
> masses this time crashing in
> "[RSS initWithURL:normalize:userAgent:]"
>
> here is the backtrace: http://pastebin.ca/910295
>
>
> so, is there any recent version of Sparkle that also works on 10.3.9
> or do i have to revert back to 1.1 which also has its share of  crash
> bugs?
>
> thanks, julian
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