On 07/06/2005, at 14:22 , James Devenish wrote:
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on Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:36:01PM +0800, Matthew Healey wrote:
Software developer ships ONE app bundle. When the user double clicks
on it, it auto-magically loads the correct binary for that system.
You won't have the problem of "which one to I download?".
So what will we get instead? "Why is Acrobat Reader 100MB to
download?"
I don't think it will be that bad - only the executable needs to be
modified. For instance, Safari.app is 20MB (on my computer), but the
executable inside the package is only 1 MB, so you might envisage an
app like Safari containing a "universal binary" would be 21 MB
instead of 20 MB. Another example - iPhoto.app is a ~ 160 MB package
with a 3.6 MB binary.
I think in most cases, the difference will be negligible.
And would anyone downloading Acrobat Reader be intelligent enough to
notice anyway?
-josh
Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
