https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68274
--- Comment #43 from Markus Mohrhard <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to steve -_- from comment #41)
> I strongly support sparkle usage. The counter argument atm from devs is,
> that sparkle is not cross platform. And then again, snap-builds (whatever
> that is) on Linux is dealt with and that's not cross from what I can tell.
How are they related? There is a huge difference between some release format
(they are already all platform dependent) and introducing 3 platform dependent
update mechanisms. This means 3 times the code and 3 times the attack surface.
>
> Obviously work is happening since moggi pushed the mar updater for windows
> to a feature branch. That branch also has recent action. So work is being
> done at this time.
>
> Downside for macOS: moggi is not interested to work on any updater stuff
> regarding macOS. That's his preferences and I respect that. But I wonder,
> how updates on macOS then can be moved forward into some constructive
> direction.
Yes, I will not do the work necessary to enable the feature on OSX. However the
code is there and you just need to find a developer to spend a bit of time
enabling the feature. It is not that it would not work, just that I will not
spend my free time debugging platform problems and dealing with OSX. Mozilla's
updater code works on OSX and all the platform bits are already in our repo.
>
> Adolfo are you in touch with QA / Dev department? We all agree this is an
> important problem in LO I guess. Figuring out options to move this forward
> would be great.
Did anyone here who says that the mar based updater is a bad idea and sparkle
is such a good idea have ever looked into the code. Especially all the security
stuff related to installing automated updates. Do you really want to audit 3
different frameworks? Do you really suppose that you will find developers
willing to maintain 3 different update frameworks. I suppose I have better
chances convincing all other developers to just drop OSX support.
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