New distribution method
11. Aug 2007 
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In the coming updates i will be using a newer method of distributing my applications, it is becoming clear that for a single file application there is no gain to distributing in a dmg over a simple archive.
The bad sides of a DMG distribution:
- Can take more space up
- Takes valuable development time to create and debug the DMG
- Takes more time to unpack on the client side
- Are normally still distributed in a archive anyway
- etc.
However to make sure people still get my licence and agree before using my applications i have hard coded them into the applications instead, i have also added a function to check if its not running in the Applications folder where it will then offer to copy it to the Applications folder and launch from there.
I hope this doesn’t disrupt anyone, as i know its not Apples way but their methods come from before archives were natively supported in OSX.
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Good words.