[Sparkle] Sparkle Integration Questions - Customized Applications

David Dunham dunham at mac.com
Sun Jan 27 13:47:06 PST 2008


On 27 Jan 2008, at 10:25, Dean Shavit wrote:

> 2) Sparkle replaces the entire app directory, not just the
> differences between the update and the existing app - which won't
> work for our users, and there's customized graphics inside the
> application and a custom plist

I guess it's working for you, but this sounds like a bad idea in  
general. Normally you can't assume that your application (or its  
users) have permission to write to the .app directory. It may be  
installed in a place they don't have permissions for, or still be on a  
read-only disk image.

David Dunham
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