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Key: SQ-114
Type: Feature Feature
Status: Open Open
Priority: Critical Critical
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automatic updates from within Etoys

Created: 26/Feb/09 05:13 PM   Updated: 06/Sep/10 05:56 AM
Component/s: etoys
Fix Version/s: future release

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From TRAC Ticket #9230 (ritaf, feb 09)

There should be a mechanism for windows like the one John McIntosh built for Mac. It lets you auto-update your Squeak based application by pushing update notifications via rss to users.

More information here: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-November/132505.html

(..and the contents of the above-referenced email:)

from: John M McIntosh
date: Wed Nov 19 07:15:43 UTC 2008
subject: [squeak-dev] Sparkle automatic update framework for Squeak OS-X

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



Bert Freudenberg added a comment - 05/Aug/09 10:27 AM
We do not intend to make "update code from server" work for end-users. You couldn't save the image anyway because it is read-only, saving the image is not as simple as it once was when there was no welcome project anyway, you would miss out on new translations and examples and guides etc. pp.
 
Instead, our plan is to provide beta versions on the download site.

Bert Freudenberg added a comment - 31/Aug/09 12:07 PM
The Sparkle plugin is included in the Mac VM now. It is not used yet, but someone could start to experiment using the code on the squeaksource page.