Hello, > They look every bit as professional and clean as a commercial MacOS > software site, but when you click the "Download $COOL_APP" link you get > a tarball!
For those programs that do not require native libraries, we could probably generate a Mono-based installer that can use console or Windows.Forms based installations. There is really nothing stopping us from building a Mono installer for applications that can be relocated, the challenges I think are: * Write the code that installs software: should this be an executable program, or should it be a package format with a special extension that a "minstall" command can process? * Applications that use this process should probably follow the Application Guidelines, but take things a step further: be completely relocatable and break with the Unix tradition of prefixed-based configurations. I would go as far as advocating the creation of a standard to create OSX-like bundles for Linux and encourage the various desktop efforts to include support for bundles. The first addresses software that requires it to be adapted to the target system, register itself somewhere or modify some system files; The second is for fully self contained software. A prototype should not take longer than a day. Miguel _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list