downloads-examples
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Downloads examples
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Examples
Mozilla Firefox
- Extension (single instance) e.g. NoScript
- Extension version history (multiple instances of one app) e.g. NoScript history
iusethis
- Download page, e.g. http://osx.iusethis.com/app/peek-a-boo
- No version history or release notes
- Does not list older downloads
- Appcast, e.g. http://osx.iusethis.com/appcast/igtd
- Every download page has a related appcast RSS feed (with autodiscovery)
iusethis provides RSS appcasts with Sparkle extensions. For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:blogChannel="http://backend.userland.com/blogChannelModule"
xmlns:iusethis="http://osx.iusethis.com/ns/rss"
xmlns:content=;http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:sparkle="http://www.andymatuschak.org/xml-namespaces/sparkle"
version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Appcast for iGTD</title>
<link>http://osx.iusethis.com/app/igtd</link>
<description>version history with a sparkle via iusethis.com</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<iusethis:universal>1</iusethis:universal>
<iusethis:homepage>http://bargiel.home.pl/iGTD/</iusethis:homepage>
<iusethis:developer>bartek:bargiel</iusethis:developer>
<iusethis:usecount>517</iusethis:usecount>
<iusethis:tags>GTD productivity get things done</iusethis:tags>
<sparkle:appLicense>Freeware</sparkle:appLicense>
<item>
<title>iGTD 1.4.5.5</title>
<link>http://osx.iusethis.com/app/versions/7961#ver_35136</link>
<description><![CDATA[<p>... appcast description goes here ...</p>]]></description>
<guid isPermaLink="false">35136</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:31:55 -0000</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://bargiel.home.pl/downloads/iGTD.dmg" type="application/octet-stream"/>
<sparkle:shortVersionString>1.4.5.5</sparkle:shortVersionString>
</item>
<!-- ... more appcast items go here .. -->
</channel>
</rss>Some notes about the RSS appcast:
sparkle:appLicenseis something iusethis-specific, something the iusethis team seems to have made up. No idea why they are using the sparkle namespace here...sparkle:shortVersionStringseems to be used instead ofsparkle:version, and I'm not sure why.
VersionTracker
- Download page, e.g. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/3410
- Does not have a direct download link, but a link to a separate page that starts the download
- Has a version history section
- Does not list older downloads
- Has a system requirements section
MySQL Downloads
- Download page, e.g. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html
- Very big page with downloads with different applications, architectures, OSes, etc
- Does not list older downloads
- No version history or release notes
MacUpdate
- Download page, e.g. http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/10225/yum
- Has a version history section
- Does not list older downloads
- Has a direct download link
- Has a system requirements section