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Automated and official SVN builds
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For Windows, people put their applications in C:\Program Files\ and that's it. Linux is the one that has ridiculously crazy standards for where to put an application... /etc/ or /bin or /usr/bin.... And there are many, many more. Saying that anyone can/do put anything anywhere in Windows is no different from saying they can do that with Mac. You don't have to put a .app inside the /Applications directory in Mac for it to work - so the argument that a "proper" packaging for Mac is in DMG with "drag/drop to Applications" implies that the "proper" packaging for Windows is to make an installing executable that installs to C:\Program Files\

BECAUSE this software is only version 0.5, it doesn't need the same attention that version 1.0 would need. 0.5 is just that, half of what should be. Making a full fledged DMG "installer" gives the feeling that the product is finished and should work a majority of the time for a majority of things (when this is clearly not so). Leaving the .app inside a zip gives it the feeling that there are still things that need to be worked on.

I continue to fail to see the point of making a full fledged DMG "installer" but if you want to do it with Linux you'll have to install this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus/

That adds support for the Mac HFS+, as well as DMG containers.
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Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 05-20-2010, 04:47 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 06-08-2010, 06:08 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 06-08-2010, 10:29 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 06-09-2010, 12:38 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by TigerC10 - 06-09-2010, 01:00 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Defade - 06-19-2010, 12:09 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by cmccmc - 06-20-2010, 04:12 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 06-22-2010, 03:29 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 06-24-2010, 01:13 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by yaoni - 07-24-2010, 05:08 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 07-24-2010, 09:26 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 08-22-2010, 04:03 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 08-23-2010, 05:08 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by shadow - 08-26-2010, 05:08 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 08-26-2010, 05:36 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by gid15 - 12-09-2010, 08:49 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by gid15 - 12-10-2010, 04:16 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Hykem - 12-09-2010, 03:04 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by MaXiMu - 12-10-2010, 06:52 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by gid15 - 12-11-2010, 05:38 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by MaXiMu - 12-11-2010, 06:31 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 12-22-2010, 02:26 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by pantos - 12-28-2010, 07:29 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 12-29-2010, 10:45 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by hyakki - 01-17-2011, 10:04 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by YSS - 01-22-2011, 12:40 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by MaXiMu - 01-22-2011, 01:03 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by YSS - 01-22-2011, 01:20 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 02-16-2011, 10:46 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 02-17-2011, 09:22 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by hyakki - 03-17-2011, 10:23 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 03-21-2011, 11:38 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by hyakki - 03-22-2011, 12:12 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 03-22-2011, 01:16 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 03-26-2011, 10:30 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by kirous - 04-22-2011, 09:35 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by serio - 07-10-2011, 04:58 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Hykem - 07-16-2011, 03:25 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Zekro - 07-16-2011, 04:02 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Hykem - 07-16-2011, 04:07 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Hykem - 07-18-2011, 07:50 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Zekro - 07-17-2011, 03:59 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 08-16-2011, 12:48 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by MaXiMu - 08-16-2011, 12:53 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 08-21-2011, 10:05 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by LeaT - 11-01-2011, 11:14 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 11-01-2011, 01:35 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by serio - 03-15-2012, 11:24 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by LeaT - 05-13-2012, 01:24 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Orphis - 05-27-2012, 12:39 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by dee200 - 05-27-2012, 09:34 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by dee200 - 06-02-2012, 08:07 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by serio - 07-02-2012, 04:02 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by shin x - 07-02-2012, 06:13 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by shin x - 07-02-2012, 06:36 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by shin x - 07-02-2012, 06:45 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by serio - 07-02-2012, 09:05 PM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by nash67 - 03-14-2013, 06:44 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by hyakki - 05-17-2013, 05:29 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by hyakki - 05-20-2013, 04:19 AM
RE: Automated and official SVN builds - by Gargo - 06-22-2013, 08:21 AM

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