On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:03:42PM -0500, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > We'll always present the current version as a downloadable version on the > website (and when I say always, that is until December 21, 2012. My > birthday, and apparently the end of the world. Or until we decide > different).
Heh, good enough. > That said, I see absolutely nothing wrong with the design you just > mentioned. Hmm, I really thought my first message in this thread was clear. How about a few scenarios to help understanding? 1) Growl is installed for all users. Sparkle checkes and notifies a regular, non-admin user about the update. User has Sparkle download it and is asked for admin user name and password to install. The user does not have that login, so overwriting the old version with the new fails. 2) The Mac is on a 32kbps satellite net at $50/Mbyte or on a 24kbps dialup. Updates are provided periodically on mailed DVD. Users know better than to download stuff across that link (and know as well how to disable Google's attempts to auto-update, etc.). I actually face both those situations on systems I help support. I hope listing them in greater detail helps you understand why a base version of any software package, with updates available only via Sparkle, is sub- optimal in general for real-world systems. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
