Installing/distributing frameworks
Installing/distributing frameworks
- Subject: Installing/distributing frameworks
- From: "l.m.orchard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:25:13 -0400
Started playing around with making my first framework, a Cocoa wrapper
around PCRE (
http://www.pcre.org) for regular expressions. Also, I was
toying with the Omni Frameworks.
I've got a question about distributing and possibly installing these
frameworks with my apps. Peeking at OmniWeb, I noticed that that app has
a copy of all the frameworks it uses, right in the app contents. I
noticed that the app VNCDimension uses some Omni frameworks and contains
its own copies of some of the same frameworks.
Is this the way it should be done? Because this seems like there'll be a
lot of duplicate copies of the same frameworks all over my system,
especially since I plan on building a bunch of small apps that will use my
PCRE framework.
Should there be some way, maybe through an installer program, to install a
new framework in a central location if it's needed? Say
/System/Library/Frameworks, or ~/Library/Frameworks? This makes me think
that this might lead to some DLL Hell with versioning if two apps use the
same framework with different revisions. Is this why every app has its
own copies?
Ugh.
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Leslie Michael Orchard <email@hidden>
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