Patching tools

[tentons]

What software patching tools do you use, and what factors made you choose that one?

[Mark Fassett]

I use patchmaker from clickteam because it's inexpensive, can patch from multiple versions, only stores the differences, and is simple to use.

[Kai Backman]

I use a self-updating mechanism based on the free Subversion system. More on it in this (http://forums.indiegamer.com/showthread.php?t=1746) thread. My main goal was to make updating as transparent to the end user as possible. With my current system as long as you have a valid license updating is just a single button click. I also wanted to have a cross platform tool and preferable free (Subversion is both). The added benefits where delta compression meaning faster download times.

[tentons]

@Kai: You don't have any kind of "package" for this system, do you? I'm sure you could get quite a few licenses if you made it simple to use. :)

I was looking at ClickTeam patcher, also. Are there other tools of this type that are cross-platform? What do you Mac coders use for this task?

[Kai Backman]

:) Well it's just a few hundred lines of C++ code so that's not much of a package .. You should be able to implement it in the proverbial weekend by reading my post.. If you really get stuck I can always help you out.