Another relevant point here is that we *did* have a package distribution in the past (IIRC, two packages and an mpkg that lumps them). I think that the general recommendation was that it should be used only if there's some need for scripts that run after installation or something like that -- and that if it's possible to avoid it, then it should be just a drag-and-drop kind of thing.
Yesterday, Robby Findler wrote: > Thank you for checking. > > I think something like that may be useful in a future release, but I > disagree that this is an uncommon way to install applications on the > mac. My experience suggests that it is the most common way to > install apps. > > Also, Apple says the same thing; see page 16, third paragraph "A > manual install is the ideal install experience for Mac OS X users." > here: > > http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/documentation/DeveloperTools/ > Conceptual/SoftwareDistribution4/SoftwareDistribution4.pdf > > (I believe this document is called "legacy" because of the mac app > store; DrRacket cannot yet be distributed that way for technical > reasons.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
