Re: Packaging Omni frameworks for distribution.
Re: Packaging Omni frameworks for distribution.
- Subject: Re: Packaging Omni frameworks for distribution.
- From: Charles Bennett <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 11:46:42 -0400
Thanks, I hadn't thought of looking over at cocoadev.com.
Just to be different, my app has two parts, a daemon and a .app
I think I'll try burying the frameworks in the .app part or in some part of the resource parts of the daemon and avoid
the "standard" locations. Seems to be wastefull though.
At the moment the resources for the daemon only contain localized strings.
In the bigger sense, I can see two sides to the problem. On one hand
if "Every" app used the frameworks and bundled them inside the app folder
then you end up with a fair amount of unnecessary code floating around in the
app bundles. Perhaps with 100 gig drives
going for $250 it doesn't matter and it does avoid counting on separate install
of frameworks. This which avoids the whole "DLL HELL" and Shared Library versions problems
that those windows folks deal with. (Actually Linux is headed that way too :-( )
The otherside is that if we all agreed to leave the code alone and let OMNI be the
only folks that could rev the library installed in the standard locations, then you could check for the libraries at
install time and avoid copying all that code.
Of course this would require developers to go along with the idea.
Just some ramblings..
chuck