Google Update Engine for OSX

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alternative to sparkle...?
Hey Elan,

Was crawling around the internet today when i stumbled upon this [announcement](http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/revving-software-with-update-engine.html) from Google Last week. I know you've mentioned a few times that you would prefer something a bit better than sparkle for the auto updating in Plex, maybe this is it...[the Google Update Engine for OSX](http://code.google.com/p/update-engine/)

Leigh.
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It is definitely an alternative, but it doesn’t appear to offer a compelling advantage over Sparkle in the form of my beloved incremental updates :slight_smile:



Thanks for posting about it!

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you know … ideally … and update service/prog like Sparkle would only do (like elan said) an incremental update of just a few mb … not a complete download



but alas … i guess rsync updates are too difficult to program into this type of autoupdate protocol

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Hrm. Would it be able to do user interactions within Plex’s normal UI contexts, or would it require a pop up dialogue box like sparkle appears to?

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Sparkle can be sub-classed to allow for custom user interfaces. I don't know how to do this with Plex's GUI. Can a dev let us know if this is possible/planned.

I am looking into setting up Plex as a Finder replacement, disabling the Dock, and want to get rid of the need of Keyboard/Mouse. Unfortunately, the Sparkle Updater still requires the use of the Keyboard/Mouse....
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Already done :) it'll be part of the new 0.7 series.
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