2008/11/19 John M McIntosh <johnmci at 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
>
> http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html
>

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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