[Sparkle] Sparkle Integration Questions - Customized Applications

[David Symonds]

On Jan 28, 2008 11:50 AM, Dean Shavit <acn-lists-dean at macworkshops.com> wrote:
> You're completely misunderstanding how the application works, but
> that's OK. Whether it goes against Apple's guideline's is of little
> concern to me. BTW, under Leopard, it just pops up a trust warning,
> it doesn't break anything. If Apple furnished a way to do what we're
> doing, under their guidelines, I'd follow them, but they don't.

I'd consider "just pops up a trust warning" to be breakage. That's the
whole mess that Microsoft gave ActiveX users, to the point where
Windows users don't bother reading those security dialogs any more and
just click "OK" instinctively.

I don't need to understand how your application works, because
application bundles are not meant to be changed by the application.
That's a bad design, and almost every other application manages to
avoid needing to do that. Apple *already* provides several ways for
application customisation via various places in ~/Library, etc.; why
can't you use any of those?


Dave.