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I’m about to create a small application that uses Sparkle to do updates - not to publish anything, but just to see how it works, and make sure I can. I read a couple of things before beginning. One was an argument against Sparkle, or rather, an argument for an Independent Software Update…

ISU would allow all applications to be upgraded at once

From Stoneship > Thoughts on Sparkle

Now, I have quite a few applications on my machine that I don’t use very often. Even something like Acorn, which I use maybe once a week, right down to stacks of apps I almost never use.

Some of these get updated quite often. I don’t really care to download every update on a regularly updated application, when I’m probably going to have multiple updates before I use the application again. So, I quite like that it checks for updates about as often as I use it.

Which means applications like Changes.app, which I use virtually every day, and ExpanDrive, which I use virtually every hour, are kept up to date, whilst Acorn, which I just used a couple of minutes ago for the first time for ages, are only updated infrequently.

This can be taken with a grain of salt - I don’t know much about Sparkle other than it is pretty cool.