andymatuschak.org: Sparklings

I spent much of the day defining the update feed format for Sparkle 2. I posted a proposal for it on the Conspiratory. Just reading it actually covers a lot of the new features I’m planning.

Some highlights:

• We’re using Atom now.
• Everything is much, much cleaner.
• We’re using posets for versioning now. No more guessing on version number comparison
• Sparkle supports branching, so you can have a beta branch that only users who ask for beta kind of updates will get moved to. Or you can have a 2.x branch and keep updating 1.x.
• Sparkle will support paid upgrades gracefully.
• There’s support for binary diffs through mojopatch. This will be awesome; most updates will change very little compared the whole app’s size, and resources generally won’t need updating.
• DSA signatures are required for everything now.

Please join the discussion on the Wiki. I’m sure parts could be better. Now back to coding.