Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism
Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism
- Subject: Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:21:14 -0700
On 4 Jul '08, at 9:18 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
But I'm sure implementing diff support would be harder than on
Windows, because Mac apps are directory trees, not single files. So
the patch process would have to use one diff per file and apply them
recursively.
I had a brainstorm about this after sending that message, and wrote it
up on my blog:
http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2008/07/doing-application-updates-via-version-control/
(In a nutshell: You could ship your app as a working tree of some
version-control system, ideally a distributed one like Mercurial or
Git. Then updating the app becomes as easy as telling the VCS to
"pull" or "update" from the master repository on your server.)
—Jens _______________________________________________
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