[Adium-devl] The disk image

[Christopher Forsythe]

2 points:

1) There is a poll functionality. Except folks abused it, so only a  
limited few can create them

2) This is not the type of thing we should be polling for. This is  
how we're presenting Adium, so there will be heavy contention. More  
to the point, asking vague questions that kind of get to the central  
topic (sort of how my dmg question on the blog didn't say "we're  
thinking about possibly changing things with the way we distribute"  
and was more of an opinion asking). We've always gone with the  
opinions of the folks who do the work (the devs) over users in some  
ways and not in others, but when it comes to the technical side of  
things we've always come up with something that made sense and just  
worked.

Basically I think this doesn't need a poll.

Also, for those curious, I agree with Evan's stance that keeping our  
current solution while adding a prettier background if possible.

Chris

On Nov 9, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:

> Its at times like this it would be nice to have a poll feature on the
> cocoa forge discussion forums. I think we are the point where we
> need real feedback from users, otherwise the discussion starts
> to sound a bit academic.
>
>
> Andre
>
> On 9-Nov-06, at 15:51 , Joshua Lock wrote:
>
>>
>> On 9 Nov 2006, at 20:39, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>> [sorry about the double-send Peter, we should really set reply-to:
>>> on this maillist....]
>> Darn; me too! Seconded!
>>> On Nov 9, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>>>
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>> You could of course just set the "internet-enabled" bit on a .dmg
>>>>> if it contains only one file (just the App, no documentation
>>>>> etc.). Then Safari takes care of downloading, expanding and
>>>>> deleting the .dmg, the user ends up with the application on the
>>>>> desktop.
>>>>
>>>> I hadn't really thought of the just-one-file thing before.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, we have ten tons of crap in our makefile for
>>>> positioning the icon Just So, and setting a background, and adding
>>>> a symlink to /Applications, blah blah blah. We could eliminate all
>>>> of that, replacing it with:
>>>>
>>>> 	hdiutil internet-enable Adium.dmg
>>>>
>>>> Then, as the commenter notes, Safari would expand the only item
>>>> (Adium.app) to the desktop, then auto-Trash the dmg. Result: Adium
>>>> on the user's desktop, ready for him to install anywhere he wants
>>>> it. No muss, no fuss, for 90% of users (I know I want to keep the
>>>> dmg, but I doubt I'm in the majority).
>>
>> Would it not be possible to have the internet-enabled DMG at the root
>> of AdiumX.com and then have a download page (on Trac?) with a DMG
>> minus the internet-enabled bit?
>>
>>> Honestly, I like the dmg, but internet-enabling it might be nice
>>> for the majority of our users. I can run this by my panel of non-
>>> advanced users (IE: make one of each kind of dmg, see which they
>>> prefer) if y'all would like.
>>
>> I'm with you, personally I'd rather keep the DMG. Would it not be
>> possible to have the internet-enabled DMG at the root of AdiumX.com
>> and then have a download page (on Trac?) with a DMG minus the
>> internet-enabled bit?
>>
>> - J
>> ---
>> Joshua Lock
>> incandescant at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
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