For me personally it's about the ease of dealing with a single file.
The development environment I've used most often in the past few
years is Revolution: http://www.runrev.com
It is a wonderful environment from the standpoint of assembling an
application. I used to do a demo for them at trade shows where I
would build a single-file executable for three platforms (OS X,
Windows, Linux) while holding my breath. It takes about 1:45 to do.
In Revolution you pretty much say, "Make me an app," and it says,
"What platforms?" You check them off and you're done.
So if it's possible to put together a single install that results in
a single folder that contains <whatever> then I'm pretty much
covered. A single file isn't really required -- just nice.
regards,
Geoff
On Mar 25, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Devon McCormick wrote:
Geoff -
when we discussed something along these lines at the NYCJUG meeting
last
month, we concluded that you might as well install the entire J
application
package; see http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NYCJUG/2007-02-13 , under
"Proceedings", the section "Installing J Applications".
This has the advantages of not forgetting anything and allowing on-
site
debugging. Is there a particular reason you don't want to do this?
Obviously
this is a shared concern as a number of people have worked on ways
to avoid
installing the entire J system in order to install their
application. I'm
just wondering what arguments we may not have considered.
Or is this more about the ease of dealing with only a single file?
Regards,
Devon
On 3/24/07, Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a way to bundle a J application into a single-file
executable? If not, how close is it possible to come?
regards,
Geoff
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