site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Organization: invers Software & DSD.net User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 Hi Peter. Feel free to distribute your software in any channels you like to. http://www.dsd.net/company/services.php?lan=en ---Ulf Dunkel - - - - - 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/... 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? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... 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. 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. ;-) On 19.04.2011 11:26, Peter Fornwall wrote: / Peter This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com