On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 18:01, Dave Miner wrote: > > > >> What I'm really after is a mechanism to - for users, not the > >> system - eliminate any use of software management tools at > >> all. Users shouldn't have to install applications at all, > >> they should just work. > > > > That sounds like a plan. Are you thinking here of the > > "download this file and run it" approach of windows installation? > > (Where "run" does not necessarily imply a .exe) > > > > One person pointed out an interesting technology in this vein to me a > few weeks ago: > > http://klik.atekon.de/ > > I haven't looked at it in any detail.
Actually, that's pretty close to what I was thinking of. Or Apple bundles. Looks like they have a distribution system as well. (And the distribution system could bundle missing prerequisites as well, I guess.) -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
