[vlc-devel] Future of the update mechanism

[Andre-John Mas]

On 30-Jul-2009, at 11:26, Rafaël Carré wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:16:45 +0200
> "Felix Paul Kühne" <fkuehne.videolan at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Regarding the SSL-dependency of Sparkle, it's a bit a 1.5 kB
>> download per check we're discussing here.
>
> No, I understand we were discussing about additional CPU load on the
> download server due to computation, not download size
>
>> Additionally, nothing speaks against updating the update
>> mechanism a few hours or days after we hit the news pages once the
>> peak traffic is over.
>
> For my own curiosity, does someone know how much users did use the
> update mechanism? (download stats of update.videolan.org/status*)
>
>> Anyway, as j-b pointed on IRC yesterday, we will need a trusted, not-
>> self-signed SSL certificate anyway. This would cost 10 € per year
>> max., something VideoLAN can cover without any problems.
>
> Like courmisch said, using SSL moves the CPU load on the server side,
> while DSA moves the CPU load on the client and doesn't need any
> trust from a root authority (because the currently installed VLC is  
> the
> root authority since it contains the public key)

Has anyone talked to other developers who use Sparkle, in order to get  
some
real world views? Adium is one project that uses it for sure.

André-John