2008/11/19 John M McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com>:
With some funding help from Impara I built a plugin to enable the use of Sparkle to receive update information about the macintosh carbon VM. This lets you auto-update your Squeak based application by pushing update notifications via rss to users. Numerous one-click squeak based apps come to mind...
Based on feedback and experience reports at some point I will consider if this should be part of the mainstream Squeak Carbon VM.
http://www.squeaksource.com/Sparkle.html
Which contains the plugin source, the class based interface, and of course SUnits.
A 1.0.0 plugin can be found via the usual places in the experimental directory as SparklePlugin.1.0.0.bundle.zip
That's very nice. Is there any analoguous frameworks for different platforms e.g. Windoze & Linux. I could help with making a windows port of it. There's a couple of things which regularily auto-update themselves on windoze: FireFox and Flash player. It would be nice to have it for squeak as well.
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