What is the experience with Google 'Omaha' (their auto-update engine for Chrome)?

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Mark picture Mark · Sep 14, 2010 · Viewed 16.4k times · Source

Google has open-sourced the auto update mechanism used in Google Chrome as Omaha.

It seems quite complicated and difficult to configure for anybody who isn't Google. What is the experience using Omaha in projects? Can it be recommended?

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Bevan Collins picture Bevan Collins · Sep 1, 2011

We use Omaha for our products. Initially there was quite a bit of work to change hardcoded URLs and strings. We also had to implement the server ourselves, because there was not yet an open source implementation. Today, I would use omaha-server.

There are no regrets with ditching our old client update solution and going with Omaha.

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