[Sparkle] Sparkle Integration Questions - Customized Applications

[David Symonds]

On Jan 28, 2008 9:56 AM, Dean Shavit <acn-lists-dean at macworkshops.com> wrote:
>
> It's not a bad idea, it works flawlessly, and has for two years (the amount
> of time the application has been available). We've considered moving to a
> web view, but that has it's own issues, and the app would need to be
> personalized at some level anyway. We've built a system based on Mac OS X
> Server to handle subscriptions / personalization /updates on our server,
> it's just that we don't have a way to update copies already deployed, and
> this is a request from our users I'm trying to fulfill.

It *is* a bad idea for quite a few reasons (multi-user systems,
network-stored apps, etc.), and goes against Apple's guidelines
(http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/WhereToPutFiles.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001411).
Also, it will break things under Leopard due to implicit code signing,
which expects application bundles to never be modified.


Dave.