Re: shrink-wrapped distribution

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Hi Jörg,

> Maybe we could differentiate user expectations by target platform?
> - MS-Windows: single file mostly welcome (think "portable executable (PE)"). 
> Self-extracting and executing archives are common.

OTOH, nowadays the "File Explorer" can unzip .zip files right away, I think.
Right?

> - trad. UNIX: ... 
> (I remember other tricks, like a file beginning as a tiny shell script,
>  then exit, followed by binary stuff).

A shell script is also what GNU 'shar' produces.

In KDE, when you click on a .zip file in dolphin, it opens 'ark', which
allows the user to extract the zip into a target directory, without any use
of command-line.

But when I click on a .sh file in dolphin, it opens it in an editor by default.
It also offers the option to execute it in a terminal emulator, but this does
not work (and avoiding the command-line was one of the purposes of the exercise).

> - MacOSX: People are used to foo.app for GUI apps.
> Some know that they can invoke apps on the CLI via e.g. /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
> I have no idea whether a CLISP.app structure would make sense for a program that
> only lives on the command line

Can you find out?

Bruno