Re: Any up-to-date documentation about os x software distribution?
Re: Any up-to-date documentation about os x software distribution?
- Subject: Re: Any up-to-date documentation about os x software distribution?
- From: Ulf Dunkel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:25:26 +0200
- Organization: invers Software & DSD.net
Hi Peter.
The Mac App Store is a very good platform for Mac OS X software
distribution, but it is not the only platform. Nor does it all the
marketing and advertisement that you can do yourself on other channels.
Feel free to distribute your software in any channels you like to.
Technically spoken, I see that more and more software distributors stop
distributing .dmg packages in favor of .zip archives. We also prefer
.zip archives which are automatically unzipped and checked in the main
available browsers. Users are used to drag apps into the Applications
folder themselves, but don't always want to overwrite existing versions
with the same app name. So .zip archives are a more convenient way.
(And, by the way: DMG views looks rather ugly when you have hidden files
switched visible.)
If you want to distribute localized versions of your app(s), I recommend
to cooperate with localizers who also distribute your apps to their
markets, doing manual translation and support in their native language.
- Like we do. ;-)
http://www.dsd.net/company/services.php?lan=en
---Ulf Dunkel
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On 19.04.2011 11:26, Peter Fornwall wrote:
What guidelines should one follow to distribute an application for OS X?
I guess that the app store is the recommended way, but what if you do
not distribute it via app store?
As asked previously:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2010/Dec/msg00001.html
This documentation is considered legacy:
http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/SoftwareDistribution4/Introduction/Introduction.html
So is there any official (non-legacy) guidelines how do distribute
non-appstore-applications on OS X?
Or any chance some new documentation will appear in the near future?
/ Peter
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