[Adium-devl] Automatic update to betas?

[Andre-John Mas]

On 11-May-07, at 17:26 , Andre-John Mas wrote:

>
> 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?

A quick follow up, adding the namespace indicated by:

http://ironcoder.org/svn/SparklePlus/tags/release-0.2/Readme.rtf

gives us:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:sparkle="http://www.andymatuschak.org/xml- 
namespaces/sparkle">
   <channel>
     <title>Adium Updates</title>
     <language>en</language>
     <item>
         <title>Adium 1.0.3</title>
         <pubDate>Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 12:30:00 GMT-5</pubDate>

         <sparkle:releaseNotesLink>http://www.adiumx.com/changelogs/ 
1.0.3.html</sparkle:releaseNotesLink>
         <enclosure sparkle:md5Sum="1c4b7c37f75917615b65d7dca92b565c"  
sparkle:version="1.0.3" url="http://adiumx.cachefly.net/ 
Adium_1.0.3.dmg" length="13819923" type="application/octet-stream"/>
     </item>
   </channel>
</rss>

Andre