Sparkle (software)
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| Sparkle's Test App showing a Software Update window.
Sparkle's Test App showing a Software Update window.
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| Original author(s) | Andy Matuschak |
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| Developer(s) | Sparkle Project (2014–present) |
| Initial release | January 9, 2006 |
| Stable release | 1.11 / August 24, 2015 |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | Objective-C |
| Operating system | OS X |
| Available in | Multi-lingual |
| Type | Software update framework |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | sparkle-project |
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Sparkle is an open source software framework for OS X designed to simplify updating software for the end user of a program. Sparkle's primary means of distributing updates is through "appcasting," a term coined for the practice of using an RSS enclosure to distribute updates and release notes.
At the end of 2013, development of Sparkle was ended by the original author, then later picked up by the newly formed Sparkle Project open source group on GitHub in June 2014 as the official continuation of the project.[1]
Programs
It is used in over 100 programs, such as:
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- Techsmith Snagit
- Adium
- AppZapper
- Bookends
- Cog
- Colloquy
- Cyberduck
- Evernote
- ExpanDrive
- GPGMail
- Hulu Desktop
- iStumbler
- PwnageTool
- Java Runtime Environment (JRE/JavaAppletPlugin) since JRE7u6
- Mactracker
- Mailbox
- Merlin
- OmniGraffle
- OmniWeb 5.6
- Path Finder
- Peel
- Pixelmator
- Pixen
- Quinn
- Scrivener
- Show Pro (software)
- Simple Comic
- SourceTree
- SubEthaEdit
- Syncplicity
- TeamViewer
- TeXShop
- Transmission
- VLC Media Player
- WebKit
- X11.app
- Xslimmer
Other OS alternatives
There are several open source Windows alternatives to offer similar functionality to Sparkle:
- wyUpdate (BSD licensed) in tandem with the AutomaticUpdater (LGPL licensed)
- WinSparkle (MIT licensed)
There is also a REALbasic implementation of Sparkle that works on OS X, Windows and Linux: RBSparkle.
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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