Re: suggestion [was: Re: GNUSTEP/linux]

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-02-05 15:14:31 +0100 Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com> wrote:

> Bundle directories are already very nice. But couldn't this be expanded to have 
> one-file bundles like MyApp.app.zip, MyLoadableBundle.bundle.zip, 
> MyWindow.gorm.zip?
>
> This would allow to _really_ easily export bundles on the web or per email or the like. 
> "Hey, just drop my app [.app.zip] into your Applications folder and you're ready to 
> go."

I agree, having the equivalent of ".dmg" files on gnustep would be great.

> Users won't even have to extract them first. Otherwise FreeTar.app would be a 
> Chicken and Egg problem for gui-only users. ;-)

Well I think this should be a basic feature of GWorkspace (knowing how to handle
tar files of zip files -- just for this case)

> OpenOffice uses zipped folders for its documents I find that quite nice.
>
> I guess it won't work for frameworks which are needed at compile time, though.

Well I don't think it's a good idea to not unzip them :)
> Greetings,
> Martin

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