Google has released an open-source software project called Update Engine that programmers can use to keep their Mac OS X software up to date.
"Update Engine can update all the usual suspects, like Cocoa apps, preference panes, and screensavers. But it can also update oddballs like arbitrary files, and even things that require root--like kernel extensions. On top of that, it can update multiple products as easily as it can update one," Greg Miller, a programmer on the update engine team, said in a blog posting Monday.
The Update Engine project is hosted at Google's open-source site.
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