[haiku-development] Re: software organization/installation
- From: Michael Kanis <mkanis@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:51:07 +0100
Am Dienstag, den 17.02.2009, 11:00 +1100 schrieb David McPaul:
> On 2009-02-17, Rick Hansen <in_rapture@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The application developer is really the only one who
> > can determine what version of a library works best
> > with his application, so those dependencies should be
> > his responsibility to provide and update them as
> > needed, not some central authority.
>
> 100% Agree.
+1
> Applications should be self contained. Anything that is not a OS
> supplied library should be located within the same folder.
>
> You can layer complexity over this by turning that folder into some
> sort of compressed image so that it looks like a file. You can ignore
> libraries located in the image in favour of a central library
> repository where versions match.
>
> And you certainly need standards on where config files and user files
> should be stored.
>
> Look at what it gets you:
> Installation is easy
> Uninstallation is easy
>
> This is what you want the end user experience to be.
+1
This is exactly Bundles on Mac OS X.
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