wyUpdate on Linux

Hi,I'm making a C++ application that should run on Windows and also Linux using Qt. I saw that wyUpdate is C# based and so it can't run on linux natively. Is there any chance in the near future to have a client available maybe as standard C++ to run it in linux environments?

Even if wyUpdate was C++ based it would still use many many Windows APIs. That is, the algorithms we use aren't generic algortihms and APIs that can be ported from Windows to Linux (or Mac) easily.

For Mac OS X we recommend Sparkle.

For Linux you have a couple options. You can use wyUpdate with Mono & Wine (we don't recommend that because we do absolutely no testing on Linux). Or you can integrate with the system specific open source updates (like apt). Or you can forgo updating on Linux and just require Linux users to re-download your app to get the latest version.

thank you for the quick reply, so you don't have any plan in the future to make wyUpdate compatible with Linux?

No, unfortunately there's not enough demand for it to be profitable.

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