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Cocoa Check for Updates

What is the best way to add a "Check for updates..." functionality to a Cocoa application? I saw a little framework implementing this but I'm not sure that's the better way.

Should I implement it from scratch?

+20  A: 

Sparkle is widely accepted as the best way to do it.

Jeff Kelley  2009-09-23 16:06:33
Agreed. Definitely **don't** write it from scratch. Sparkle has benefited from the experience and feedback of many Cocoa programmers. It's a very straightforward and seamless way to provide in-app updates.
Quinn Taylor  2009-09-23 16:20:45
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Sparkle is the most popular way to do this.

There is also the lesser known update-engine which Google is using and developing.

Matthieu Cormier  2009-09-23 16:19:56

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