[Adium-devl] Automatic update to betas?

[Andre-John Mas]

On 11-May-07, at 14:33 , Peter Hosey wrote:

> On May 11, 2007, at 10:47:54, Andre-John Mas wrote:
>> How complicated would it be to provide an option in Adium to be  
>> offered an update to a beta, when you currently using a non-beta,  
>> using sparkle?
>
> The problem is that most of our users are plain users, who  
> shouldn't be using betas. We deliberately make it moderately hard  
> to get betas for this reason.
>
> Sparkle is fed by appcasts, which are just syndication feeds. So  
> you can do this by simply subscribing to the beta appcast using  
> your feed reader:
>
> <http://adiumx.com/sparkle/appcast-beta.xml>
>
> And in case anyone has the same demented mind that I have: No, it  
> doesn't work in iTunes.

Thanks for the info. I tried opening the xml file in Firefox and got  
an error.
Looking at the raw XML it turns out there is no reference to sparkle  
namespace
schema file. Is this normal?

Andre