Thursday, April 21, 2011

Cocoa Check for Updates

What is the best way to add a "Check for updates..." functionality to a Cocoa application? I saw a little framework implementing this but I'm not sure that's the better way.

Should I implement it from scratch?

From stackoverflow
  • Sparkle is widely accepted as the best way to do it.

    Quinn Taylor : Agreed. Definitely **don't** write it from scratch. Sparkle has benefited from the experience and feedback of many Cocoa programmers. It's a very straightforward and seamless way to provide in-app updates.
  • Sparkle is the most popular way to do this.

    There is also the lesser known update-engine which Google is using and developing.

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