django-sparkle

Django-sparkle is a Django application to make it easy to publish updates for your mac application using sparkle.

In addition to publishing updates via the appcast feed, Django-sparkle can also collect system profile information if sparkle is configured to report it.

Requirements

• OpenSSL
• Markdown (For release notes)

Setup

1. easy_install django-sparkle or pip install django-sparkle
2. Add sparkle to your installed apps
3. Add django.contrib.markup to your installed apps if not already included
4. In settings.py add SPARKLE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH which is the path to your private DSA key for signing your releases.
5. In urls.py include the sparkle URLs by adding something like (r'^sparkle/', include('sparkle.urls')).
6. Ensure your domain name is properly configured in the sites framework.
7. python manage.py syncdb to create the tables needed for sparkle.

Usage

Create an application and optionally add some versions.

The application's appcast feed will be available at /whatever_you/configured_in/your_urls_py/(?P<application_id>\d+)/appcast.xml.

Set the SUFeedURL key in your Info.plist to point to the sparkle application's appcast URL. http://example.com/sparkle/1/appcast.xml for example.

If you want to enable system profiling, be sure to set the SUEnableSystemProfiling key in your Info.plist to YES.

Settings

SPARKLE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH

The path to your DSA private key for signing releases. Defaults to None. If not provided, releases will not be automatically signed when uploaded.

To Do

• Tests of course!