”The Sparkle framework just nails the process of providing an automatic update mechanism for Cocoa applications. I’m really impressed with how smoothly it works and the idea of using RSS as a notification mechanism, in the form of an appcast, is perfect. In fact, it works so smoothly that the part of me that automates everything wanted to take it one step further and make pushing a new version of a Cocoa application I’m working on as easy as pushing a button. Sort of like using Capistrano with Rails, but from within Xcode. After all, once Sparkle is wired into an application, doing the rest of the work to build archives, create feeds, and upload things seems like a real drag. So, last night I sat down and hacked away on it and have come up with a first cut solution.”

(Via James Duncan Davidson – Sparklemation.)