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

[Colin Barrett]

On Nov 11, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> 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.

I still don't see how it's any better than what we have now -- in  
fact, I think it's worse. IEDs suck.

-Colin