[Adium-devl] [macsb] Re: Disk Images

[Peter Hosey]

On Nov 11, 2006, at 19:53:43, Paul Kafasis wrote:
> Safari users will just get the app, others will get the disk image  
> loaded up, with background.
>
> I'm not sure what type of license you're trying to show - if it's  
> an onMount license, that may not be possible, I dunno. I've always  
> loathed those, and have never tried to use one.

An excellent point — I'd forgotten about the built-in license  
display. (I agree that it's obnoxious, though).

Currently, our disk image contains four things:

⁃ Adium.app/
⁃ Changes.txt
⁃ Licenses.txt
⁃ Applications at ->/Applications

The problem with internet-enabling the current image is that Safari  
unpacks it to a folder. That's ugly, and no better than using a tbz  
or zip.

So what we'd need to do is:
1. Burn the changelog. Does anybody really care? If so, they can get  
it from the website.
2. Move the license file to an on-mount display, or put it in the  
Adium menu. I prefer the former, simply because people should be able  
to easily view the license before using the app under its terms.
3. Remove the symbolic link, under the presumption that anybody using  
a third-party browser knows what to do with an application on a disk  
image.
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