What next?

Ed Hill ed at eh3.com
Thu Jun 2 18:28:21 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 07:07 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:38:37 -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
> > Have you been using *nix long enough to remember when people thought it
> > was cool to stuff every package into is own /opt/${PACKAGE} directory?
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > Does it sound at all familiar to Apple's approach that you just
> > described?
> 
> Nope. Not really. Putting apps in their own (movable) directory isn't the
> issue here. The things that make appfolders easy go pretty deep, but the
> fact that it's implemented in terms of magic directories is just a surface
> detail.


>From the description that you've provided, there is *no* depth.  And
there is *no* magic.

Quoting from your original email, the two key parts are:

> - Packages have no dependencies outside the operating system. They
>   can embed libraries within themselves easily.

> - There is no auto update system. Apple also provide a traditional 
>   Installer service, which some things use.

So when you've thrown out updates and completely eliminated any intra-
package dependencies, whats left?  Nothing but a hollow GUI wrapper over
yet-another brain-dead application of /opt/${PACKAGE}.

Ed

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