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Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism
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Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism

  • Subject: Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism
  • From: Paul Sargent <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:54:22 +0100

On 4 Jul 2008, at 18:57, Sebastian Nowicki wrote:

I haven't looked into xdeltas at all, but wouldn't it be possible to use a tarball and diff that instead? 

Two Points:

* If it's a compressed tar ball the delta will be thrown out of whack, and
you end up with unnecessarily large patches.
* It would require the user to keep the original tar ball around to delta
against when it came to upgrading.

I quite like Jens' VCS idea, except if you used something like hg, git, or bzr the repository on the users machine starts to fill with copies of all the different versions of the app. It even includes versions that the user never bothered with. This could get large quickly.

SVN seems better, but it litters .svn directories everywhere inside the app bundle. That might cause problems (I'm thinking code signing amongst others).
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 >Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism (From: Paul Sargent <email@hidden>)
 >Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism (From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>)
 >Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism (From: Sebastian Nowicki <email@hidden>)

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