Fluid 0.2 is out with two major improvements:

1. You can now specify a custom app install path.
2. The excellent Sparkle Update framework has been added for ultra-convenient software updates.

The first item is important because the previous version of Fluid forced you to install SSBs in the /Applications folder… that’s not possible for non-admin accounts. :0[

The second item (Sparkle Update support) is especially important for Fluid. Normal apps benefit greatly from Sparkle's super-simple 'Install and relaunch update' feature. But with SSBs created by Fluid, you'd have to delete and recreate multiple applications each time a new version of Fluid is released. So for Fluid, it's extra-important to have Sparkle Updates for both Fluid.app itself and the SSBs it creates.

The bad news is that version 0.1 (the previous version) didn't have Sparkle built-in. So this time around, Fluid users will need to delete all of the old SSBs they created with Fluid 0.1. The good news is that from here on out, updates will be painless... any time you launch Fluid.app or a Fluid-generated SSB, you'll get a notification if there's a newer version available. At that time you can download, install and restart with a single click! :0]

Thanks to Andy Matuschak who created the Sparkle Update framework.

Get Fluid 0.2

Fluid Changelog

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