[Adium-devl] Sparkle for plugins

[Thibault Martin-Lagardette]

Hi everyone.

I know this was a GSoC project, but looks like it was not choosen.  
Plus, I'm currently writing a plugin for adium, and I'd like to be  
able to update it.
So, here I am, wondering wether I should get myself into adium's and  
the sparkle framework's code, to make updating a plugin very easy for  
plugins. And I think I should :)

The idea would be to implement sparkle directly into Adium's API so  
that plugins only have to implement methods like  
"pluginAppcastFeedUrl", "pluginBundleIdentifier" (for sparkle to get  
the bundle path), and use the already available "pluginVersion"  
method. Of course, this would be some AIPluginUpdating protocol, so  
that we do not try to update plugins that do not adopt it :).
Plus, I may try to implement ticket #7178 ( http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/7178 
  ) while on it :).

What do you think?

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Thibault Martin-Lagardette