You're right. Using XCode this happened all the time.
Also, it appears to happen if you have copied the app to 2 different locations, and
click on both the different locations.
Yes, this is because these are seen by the system as two separate applications.
Which brings up a related issue: currently we're planning to distribute with a .DMG file
that contains the app and perhaps a readme file with the expectation that the user will
know to copy this to a convenient place: perhaps the desktop, perhaps the Applications
folder. Is this a reasonable assumption?
Yes; this is the typical way in which Macintosh applications are
"installed"; In fact, I have seen many disk images distributed with a
link to "/Applications/" on the image itself to facilitate this
dragging.
And if so, what happens if they move it later? In particular, the file associations seem to
be to a particular path to the app, and if that
path changes, what happens to the file associations?
Nothing; the file association moves with the app (i.e. it is *not*
tied to a path; it is tied to the bundle identifier of the app)
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Clark S. Cox III
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