[Adium-devl] Dynamic Sparkle release notes

[Augie Fackler]

On Jun 29, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

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> On Jun 29, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
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>> I brought this up on #macsb and schwatoo and I think that it's a good
>> idea but the implementation kind of sucks. In particular, you're
>> already fetching the appcast, which already (in theory) contains all
>> the release notes for all your intervening versions, so why not just
>> display off of that?
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> The only real problem with that as I see it as that since the whole  
> appcast has to be retrieved to do the version check (right?), each  
> client ends up being forced to download an ever-increasingly-large  
> xml file to do a simple version check.  Am I misunderstanding  
> something about the process?

#macsb:
15:15 < schwatoo> doesn't sparkle do a HTTP HEAD?
15:15 < schwatoo> to only download if changed?
15:15 < andym_> It sets the caching mode such that that's the  
behavior, yeah.

So basically, if the appcast doesn't change, Sparkle doesn't  
redownload it, so this is a really minor bandwidth hit, and we'll  
more than make up for it when we get zsync updates working.

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> -Evan

Augie