[Sparkle] Sparkle Integration Questions - Customized Applications

[Christopher Atlan]

Am 27.01.2008 um 23:57 schrieb Dean Shavit:

> on 1/27/08 4:42 PM, Christopher Atlan at catlan at restoroot.com spake:
>
>> Am 27.01.2008 um 19:25 schrieb Dean Shavit:
>>
>>> 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
>>
>> What if you save all changes of the app also in (~)/Library/
>> Application Support/yourapp/customization and check on startup if you
>> need to copy back the customization from Application Support?
>>
>>> so now to try the trunk version and a .pkg file....
>>
>>
>> It is possible to handle this with *.pkgs, but I think pkgs will be
>> more painful.
>
> This is what I'm considering, but it has some unique issues, I'd  
> rather
> handle caching the personalization files at the time of update in / 
> tmp. But
> I want to try a .pkg first.
>
> Could you explain why it would be painful? I am of the mind that it  
> would be
> quite trivial.

Over the last one and a half year I used pkgs I run into all king of  
issues - maybe some of them where meta-packages issues and it depends  
which your target platform is (10.3 above for me), but I lost my trust  
a little...

Btw, the trunk version of sparkle use the GUI Install.app, you maybe  
need to change this to the terminal installer that it run in the  
background.

Christopher Atlan
restoroot.com