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

Question

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

Answer 1

An auto-update mechanism is something I'd personally code myself, and always have in the past. Unless you have a multi-gigabyte application and want to upload bits and pieces only, just rely on your own code/installer. That said, I've not looked at Google's open source library at all.. and didn't even know it existed. I can't imagine it offering anything superior to what you could code yourself, and with your own code you aren't bound by any licensing restrictions.