django-sparkle-external

Django-sparkle-external is a spin-off version of django-sparkle-1.5 to provide Sparkle updates with external file sources.

I serve my app site with Heroku, on which it is absolutely painful to enable media file uploads for Django. I changed the file source to a URLField so that I can serve my updates with GitHub Downloads instead. Some other hooks provided by django-sparkle-1.5 had also been removed since they won’t work on Heroku.

I also used Django Ghostdown to provide a better text field for release notes. One benefit (?) of this is that this project does not depend on Markdown anymore, but you can use any Markdown rendering library as you wish. See description of Django Ghostdown for more information on the setup.

The original README of django-sparkle-1.5 follows.

django-sparkle-1.5

Django-sparkle-1.5 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.

This version of django-sparkle is intended for use with Django 1.5 and has some added features. If you're looking for the base version of django-sparkle, please visit https://github.com/Mobelux/django-sparkle

Requirements

Django >= 1.5
Markdown > 2.1 (for release notes)
django-absolute (for absolute URLs in the link field of the appcast)

optional requirements

OpenSSL (if you want to have releases signed) This must be available on the command line as the openssl command.

Setup

easy_install django-sparkle-1.5 or pip install django-sparkle-1.5
Make sure that django-absolute is correctly installed (this needs some additional settings).
Add sparkle to your installed apps
In urls.py include the sparkle URLs by adding something like (r'^sparkle/', include('sparkle.urls')).
Ensure MEDIA_URL is correctly set
python manage.py syncdb to create the tables needed for sparkle.
Optional: In settings.py add SPARKLE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH which is the path to your private DSA key for signing your releases.
Optional: Add SPARKLE_UPLOAD_PREFIX to your settings (default is sparkle/). This component will be added to the media URL for your uploaded versions.

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_slug>\d+)/appcast.xml.

Your uploaded versions will be available at {{ MEDIA_URL }}/SPARKLE_UPLOAD_PREFIX/application_slug/version_number.extension. You can get the URL for an latest version of an Application by calling instance.latest().update.url.

Set the SUFeedURL key in your Info.plist to point to the sparkle application's appcast URL. http://example.com/sparkle/app/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.
SPARKLE_UPLOAD_PREFIX The path prefix that will be added to your uploaded files. Defaults to sparkle/. Use this to configure the upload directory in which your release files will end. Note that this prefix will become part of the download URL. Remember to end this with a / if you want a directory.

To Do

Tests of course!

License

This software is licensed under the terms of the BSD license:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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