VERIFIED WONTFIX 17774
Please add Sparkle update capability to OS X WebKit.app 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17774
Summary Please add Sparkle update capability to OS X WebKit.app
Sanford Selznick
Reported 2008-03-11 10:14:24 PDT
I'd like to always have the latest WebKit installed so I can test. However keeping WebKit.app up to date from the nightly builds is a difficult task. (See protocol below.) On OS X there's a free-source library called Sparkle that will automatically download, install and update an app with one click. It would be great if this could be incorporated in to WebKit.app for OS X. At the recent mac-centric C4 conference the audience was asked if they were using Sparkle for their products, and a huge proportion of hands went up. It is apparently very easy to add, and very robust. I'm told it can be integrated in just a few hours. Currently I have to: 1. Launch WebKit.app if it's not already running. 2. Navigate to the download site. 3. Mount the disk image (I have automatic mounting turned off.) 4. Quit WebKit.app 5. Copy to /Applications. 6. Confirm the replacement. 7. Unmount the disk image. 8. Throw away the disk image. 9. Launch new WebKit.app. Even having a "Check for updates" menu item would be welcome... one that would initiate sparkle so it wouldn't have to be done on a timer or anything. :-) I hope this helps. Best, Sanford
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Matt Lilek
Comment 1 2008-03-11 10:26:09 PDT
The problem with just adding Sparkle is that WebKit.app isn't actually a standalone app. When you launch WebKit.app, you actually end up launching whatever version of Safari is installed on your system. We'd have to poke around with Safari more than we already do, and doing so would cause even more confusion about the differences between WebKit (the engine) and Safari (the browser application). The nightly.webkit.org site provides RSS feeds for the nightlies and you can download them directly from your newsreader that way. You can also use the NightShift utility to somewhat automate the process as well. I have a semi-finished app that sort of combines the two concepts that (hopefully) provides a better update experience, but I have not had much time recently to work on it - I will try to find time for that soon. That said, I'm marking this as WONTFIX per above.
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