How can I enable auto-updates in a Qt cross-platform application?

Question

I love applications that are able to update themselves without any effort from the user (think: Sparkle framework for Mac). Is there any code/library I can leverage to do th

Answer 1

Shameless plug: this a relatively old question, but I thought that it may be useful to mention a library that I created recently, which I named "QSimpleUpdater". Aside from notifying you if there's a newer version, it allows you to download the change log in any format (such as HTML or RTF) and download the updates directly from your application using a dialog.

As you may expect from a Qt project, it works on any platform supported by Qt (tested on Windows, Mac & Linux).

Links:

• Website
• GitHub repository

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