How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?

Re:How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed? by wmf on Thursday September 17, 2009 @11:53PM (#829617)

If you have one repository you've just created a monopoly. If you have multiple repositories (probably one per app) then you've just shifted the problem to installing new repositories.

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Re:How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed? by catch23 on Friday September 18, 2009 @02:15AM (#829768)

What's wrong with multiple repositories? It should be easy to add new ones. There's multiple places to get debian packages, there's the main packages, non-free, backports, and other homebrew ones like mythtv etc. It's as easy as adding a line into a text file, but I'm sure the interface could be better... maybe even something integrated with the browser.

Maybe github & sourceforge has a mac repository. So you'd have the default one from apple, plus any open source apps from github & sourceforge. Individual developers who just publish code on github wouldn't need to setup their own repository. In a way, it's kind of how the ruby community distributes their packages.

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Re:How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed? by blasdel on Friday September 18, 2009 @03:14AM (#829820)

Freetard wankery is the only reason there is more than one place to get debian packages.

Fuck debian-legal. I hope their heads fall off.

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Re:How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed? by andrewtj on Friday September 18, 2009 @01:06AM (#829695)

Zero Install attempts to resolve that issue amongst others: http://0install.net/

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Re:How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed? by bkudria on Friday September 18, 2009 @01:19AM (#829702)

What's wrong with a monopoly? The common iPhone user has no problems with the App Store...

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