Struggling to get MBS Updater (Sparkle) Going

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Hi all,

Migrating from Kaju to the MBS Sparkle Updater Kit, I’m hitting a roadblock. I’ve done all the keys, MD5 hashing and creation of the XML, added the Sparkle Framework and the public key build steps but it seems to silently fail and I can’t home in on any errors.

I built the Updater Example and same thing. I’m missing something or something has changed. MBS 25.1, Xojo 2025r1.1.

Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks

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info.plist entries maybe?
Anything logged in Console.app from the app?

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Hi Christian, I “think” the info.plist is correct, but this also happens on the Updater Example. When I console log, I do see this.

error 13:29:39.795434-0400 Updater Example Error: checkForUpdates - updater hasn't been started yet. Please call -startUpdater: first

Now, I see in your appcast.xml, it mentions the Sparkle Framework is 2.0, but it wasn’t present in the example so I downloaded latest which is 2.7, so let me see if I can grab that older version later. Thanks

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No need to go to old version.

But do you call startUpdater method on the SPUUpdaterMBS class?

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No, I can’t see where startUpdater is available as a method. I do call init. Now, if I use Sparkle Framework 2.0, your updater example works fine. So somewhere between 2.0 and 2.7, something changed. :grinning_face:

This gets me going for now, and hopefully I can dig deeper later. Thanks.

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Is this updater kit (or any other one) available to do on Linux? What about changes to database tables?

Thanks,
Tim