Re: Deploying Cocoa Applications

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Sat Jun 17 18:18:18 2006

Uli Kusterer wrote:
> Am 17.06.2006 um 15:33 schrieb John Stiles:

>> I kind of agree with this, to a certain degree, but DMGs are really
>> the standard here. Users will have to learn about this concept fairly
>> quickly if they ever plan on downloading software.

>
>  Well, the same argument could have been made about the command line a
> couple years ago. I personally prefer giving my users the best user
> experience possible, and DMGs aren't it. I also saw it in support
> calls that a ZIP archive generally is the better use. You don't have
> to tell them to copy the application from the image before running it.
> You only tell them "double click the archive and it will extract the
> application out of it, then put the application wherever you like."
> You can't have such an easy description for a disk image.

Technically an Internet-enabled dmg will be easier (download and run)
but for some reason these never seemed to gain much traction.