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 12:02:18 +0200
On 2004-06-10, at 11.44, Wade Tregaskis wrote:
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As I mentioned in a parallel post, this should not be a problem given
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the provisions for versioning built into the frameworks scheme.
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Namely, major versions which may well break previous functionality can
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co-exist with each other, so each "generation" of framework users can
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happily do their thing. Minor versions should not, by definition of
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minor, introduce any changes which break existing functionality.
Have you ever seen anyone using this feature? Apple doesn't, AFAIK.
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What if the user's on dial-up and doesn't particularly like having to
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spend an extra three hours downloading your app?
Of course, if you have a very large framework your priorities could be
different from what I outlined - but most often this is not the case.
It would also, in my opinion, be a nightmare to support the download /
install procedure of a suite of applications where the frameworks are
bundled separately. Would you provide a choice of two downloads per
app, one with and one without the framework? Or would you only have
apps without the framework, and then a separate download of the
framework? Yuck!
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It seems self-defeating to create frameworks, and then include them
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only in your app bundle. Why not just compile it all into one
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amorphous blob and not waste the extra run-time of linking and so
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forth?
Because breaking out code into bundles, plugins and frameworks
encourages code separation and facilitates code maintenance.
j o a r
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