[Adium-devl] The disk image

[Colin Barrett]

On Nov 9, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Nov 9, 2006, at 12:26:14, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> Honestly, I like the dmg, but internet-enabling it might be nice  
>> for the majority of our users.
>
> Problem: If somebody is not using Safari (if, for example, they are  
> using Firefox because they are a Windows expatriate), the magic that  
> comes with an inet-enabled disk image doesn't happen. It behaves as  
> any other disk image, which would leave us back in the pre-symlink  
> days for those non-Safari users.
>
> The other way is to keep the symlink — that is, keep everything we  
> have now and throw inet-enabling on top. This sucks for the Safari  
> users: they get a folder with everything in it, rather than a nice  
> Adium.app that they can use right away.
>
> The ideal solution would be to serve up separate disk images based  
> on User-Agent, but I doubt we can do that with CacheFly.

We might be able to do it with PHP though -- we do have a redirect-to- 
download page already.

I still think that IEDs are a Bad Thing, though. "What the hell, I  
downloaded a disk image? Where did it go?"

-Colin