[Adium-devl] Let's abandon disk images

[Peter Hosey]

They're great for those of us who have a clue, but that's not Adium's  
userbase. Adium's users are non-technical people, and it's becoming  
clear to me from feedback emails that some people just don't get disk  
images. There's no long-term way around that except to drop them.

I propose that from 1.1 forward, we do all releases in tbz format.

It simplifies the user experience:
⁃ No more alias to the Applications folder.
⁃ No more "Drag this here and then drag this other thing here and  
then drag this third thing here".

It downloads and opens up into a nice little folder. I can't see how  
anybody could be confused by the tbz process.

It simplifies our own release process:

	xcodebuild -configuration Deployment
	&& mkdir "Adium $VERSION"
	&& mv ../build/Deployment/Adium.app "Adium $VERSION"
	&& ln ../ReadMe.txt ../LICENSE.txt "Adium $VERSION"
	&& tar cjf "Adium-$VERSION.tbz" "Adium $VERSION"

No making aliases. No AppleScripts. No getting every icon and label  
in Just The Right Place. A simple five-line shell script and we're  
*DONE*.
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\ Peter Hosey / prh at boredzo.org
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