[wxpython-users] sparkle for wxpython

[Phil Mayes]

At 09:49 AM 5/2/2008, you wrote:
>Anyone had any luck integrating Sparkle or something like it
>( component for autoupdates ) in a wxpython app?
>
>thanks,
>Cliff

I had never heard of Sparkle, but I have been working on auto-updating 
recently, and it was quite a saga.  Short story:

* I'm only developing and shipping on Windows at present.
* I package with PyInstaller followed by INNOsetup.
* I have a way of asking the server if a newer version is available.  The 
details of the mechanism are unimportant.
* I used to send users to the download page, but decided that naive users 
were maybe not running the installer once they downloaded it.
* I downloaded the installer myself, using http and showing a progress 
dialog, then executed the installer with spawnl.
* The installer would not execute successfully because it held a handle to 
the (now-closed) calling process, so it failed, claiming it could not 
delete myprogram.exe
* I reduced the problem to a 3-line program and removed INNOsetup from the 
equation; I asked on the PyInstaller group, but the solution only deferred 
the problem:
http://groups.google.com/group/PyInstaller/browse_thread/thread/73bda547677fb5ff
* I hacked my way round it by creating a batch file, pointing Windows 
Explorer to it, and asking the user to execute it.

This story may or may not be of some use to you. Good luck!

Phil