Bob Warren wrote:
In this thread and the one it arose from, I have not been the slightest bit concerned about discussing the distribution of apps generally in Linux. I have only tried to discuss the distribution of Rev apps. It has now been confirmed again that they do NOT need "installing" in any normal sense of the word and that "standalone" means what it says.
That's pretty much been the message from all contributions to this thread in my reading of it. I never understood the goal of this thread from the start, but please don't bother explaining it on my account.
As for "installation", it depends on what one means by that. For a complete user experience, Mac and Windows have a higher standard to meet, with users expecting that an application will not merely run but will also have icons properly set up for the app and its documents, have document associations properly defined, and install a shortcut to itself into the Start menu on OSes that have one.
Linux developers have sufficiently lowered expectations there that users don't seem to mind doing much of that manually, something that would never be tolerated on more consumer-minded OSes.
While this unnecessarily hampers Linux adoption among consumers, meeting such low expectations can make a developer's life easier. ;)
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