On Dec 27, 2009, at 8:59 AM, fraserhess wrote: > According to my web stats report, older versions of my app still being > downloaded occasionally. Sparkle will kick in immediately and update the old > app to the current version, so should I even care? > > What do other folks do to prevent downloading of old versions? Does anyone > use a 'current' symlink like iSoft-current.zip -> iSoft-1.2.3.zip?
In my case I decided to just have one download link that was always the most current. So, http://download.pixelresearchlabs.com/Ringer.zip. I decided I did not need to have links to older versions so I am just maintain one link. The advantage for me is that there has always only been one download link so even very old references to it still point to the latest version. This extends to my appcast as well. I only maintain one entry referring to the latest version. I could see if you had an app that had multiple versions with paid upgrades between each you might want to structure it differently.
