What next?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 01 juin 2005 à 23:44 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak a écrit :

> BTW., how does osx do installs (just bringing up the meta-file installer
> thingy again. Feel free not to answer)?

Mac systems and all the systems they inspired (java...) basically stuff
an app and all its needs in a single archive (because you can't mouse
easily more than one file)

Installation is just dropping this file in the right place
Un-installation is deleting it

It sucks big time because you have massive code duplication leading to
maintenance problems and high memory usage, no shared infrastructure
apart from the one provided by the OS/JVM and controlled by a single
vendor. And app writers do not really care if all the third-party stuff
they put in their archive with their own code is stale and leaking.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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