Re: How to create a easy of use Installer?
Re: How to create a easy of use Installer?
- Subject: Re: How to create a easy of use Installer?
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:38:37 +0200
On 2004-06-10, at 10.04, Nicko van Someren wrote:
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While installing using a dragable application icon is clearly
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preferable, is there an efficient alternative for the case where you
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want to provide frameworks that are going to be used by multiple
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applications in a suite? Including the frameworks inside each
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application leads to bloat since they get duplicated and also does not
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allow the OS to do any resource optimisation when the same framework
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is being used by more than one application. I am inclined to use a
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package installer in this case but I'd be interested to hear if anyone
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has got a better plan.
How would you manage the case where you distribute one application with
a new version of the framework but the user might have some other
application around that expects an older version of the framework? Are
you ready to handle the versioning issues and binary compatibility
issues involved?
What if the user moves to a new machine and just copies over his
/Applications directory?
Personally I don't care about a couple of extra MB of disk space used
(what you call "bloat") and a couple of extra KB of RAM used, for the
convenience of knowing that the application is self contained.
OmniGroup distribues their applications with their frameworks inside
the applications wrapper. I think you should do the same.
j o a r
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