Re: AppleScript Application Self-Check for updates
Re: AppleScript Application Self-Check for updates
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Application Self-Check for updates
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 06:24:38 -0600
Sounds good. Thanks.
On 3/18/17, 2551phil <email@hidden> wrote:
> The first half of what you want to do is fairly straightforward, but its
> when you get to here:
>
>> quit the old version of the app, install the new version, then start the
>> new app.
>> If there were any temporary files from the older app version, it should
>> clean them up and then start the new application version.
>
> Most apps that I know of (including my own) use a third-party framework
> called Sparkle to achieve most of that. See:
>
> https://sparkle-project.org
>
> Rolling your own is no small ask, not least because you need to build a
> secondary app that will do the quitting and restarting of the main app.
>
> In comparison, Sparkle is fairly easy to set up and doesn’t require much
> anything in the way of maintenance.
>
> Either way, you’ll really want to build your app in Xcode to manage the
> project if you’re not doing so already.
>
>
> Best
>
>
> Phil
> @sqwarq
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