-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for your reply. Although not all .app bundles are Cocoa apps, Eclipse is a good example.
How difficult would be it be to package this application as a .app bundle instead of all over the filesystem like the typical Unix application (which makes installing/uninstalling/upgrading a pita)? Thanks! On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > >> Why isn't this application packaged like normal OS X apps in an >> application bundle? Why the Unix(Linux) bundling and installing? > > Usually, these "normal" OS X apps are Cocoa apps. If it has a > nifty-keen GUI on it, odds are good that it's a Cocoa app and is > thus packaged as a .app. But otherwise, odds are good that it's a > regular UNIX utility and will be packaged like a regular UNIX utility. > > For instance, the Apple Developer Tools are packaged both > like .apps and like regular UNIX utilities. XCode is a Cocoa apps, > and as such, it's packaged as a .app. But Apple's C compiler is a > regular UNIX utility, and as such, it's packaged as /usr/bin/gcc. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJF7vt6AAoJELcA9IL+r4EJmokIAMxwltRifxUIuVfQ7IKcKmiQ > uZaIetXMFswVDupBqI5QvCj1tapyQYIdyfrnTaB8vWrJmsDlQsPA3MrZE8OhRbVW > lrqmOhbWD4wSTd4+7FqI+K5VEhmaSCo4Rf9F6iXdOiKB0p4FKodgWOsdUvNsCLFk > sVpuIzr7XYynqX03rtN30pQRZXl8yVhic9gBQx34S+7y50e8GriHmshAJYaMe779 > bIesznJNxNRX4bQ8XjsRGuAZV6aqI2OCKvwlNqge1xJVrWu4tLtn6eCjEvUGj650 > 2cxMEWXCLw+9x5SwzwKCK4j7MeIlU/6cPvXySSvF4fowv2mB4HLMM2zni03RGvM= > =OW5W > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFF7v+/zTrtVKxWL8MRAobJAJ9PwwUUddaLmYmWzLKdQcidnUZJvACg329N 1BF0JCgj7lSK/XAbo5VTtCA= =k8+v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users