I need an updater for my macOS JVM app. Tried Hydraulic Conveyor so far following their tutorial, but that just doesn't work. The sample app won't update. What other options do I have? I'm looking for tools similar to Conveyor.

when you say "updater", what do you mean? some in-app functionality to upgrade your app?

Something that can replace my old DMG with a new one. I figured out that many "traditional" ways like jDeploy won't work, because if the installation changes it's files I lose notarization.

The author of conveyor hangs around here. He can probably help. @mikehearn

First report we've heard like that. I can help debug with you, if you like. Please be aware that by default on macOS, Sparkle won't check for updates on first run or for an hour or so after install (iirc). This is deliberate, to avoid immediately asking the user to update if they downloaded an old version. That's in

app.updates = background

mode (the default). In aggressive mode it should check and update on every launch.

The sample project from the tutorial is in aggressive mode. I got a version 2.0 app installed, the update site is at version 3.0 - but it doesn't attempt to update.

OK, could you look at the Console app and then (re)start the app, there should now be some logs for the newly started process that print out what it's doing and why it's not updating.

What is the Console app?

The macOS log viewer app that comes with the OS.

I use "make site" and "npx serve output" like the tutorial says

You should be able to find stuff from your app using the "Process" column. Then you can right click it and select "Show Process 'foo'" to zoom in on only that app

What I notice is that the mac app on start does not connect to the webserver. The "npx serve" terminal window shows a live access log.

Could you double check that the

app.updates

key is set to

aggressive

in your config? I just tried generating the compose sample and noticed it's missing, although the tutorial says it's there by default. I wonder if that's the problem.

Could you double check that the

app.updates

key is set to

aggressive

in your config? I just tried generating the compose sample and noticed it's missing, although the tutorial says it's there by default. I wonder if that's the problem.

Yes, that was the problem. Now it works. Thank you.

Sorry about that, from checking it seems every template except Compose had it in there. Whoops. We'll get that fixed.

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How does this

aggressive

app.updates

behave if you application is only self-signed? Will it still work?

Yes