[Qt-interest] [OT] Politically Correct way to release an Open Source Qt Project

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

Kustaa Nyholm wrote on Monday, August 02, 2010 10:35 AM:

> > ...
> On the other hand, on Windows (in my experience) the users are
> conditioned to need/expect an installer even if one is not actually
> needed and even though  the whole concept of an installer is faulty. 

You mean as faulty as the concept of Mac *not* having an "installer infrastructure", which basically makes it impossible to cleanly uninstall an application (including all config/cache/whatever entries it ever did during its lifetime)? Which leads to the "standard task" of googling "Uninstall app Foo" (which then comes up with e.g. http://www.skype.com/intl/de/support/user-guides/upgrading/skype-for-mac/uninstall/) and requires then manual steps to cleanly uninstall Foo?

Ah no, *now* I got it: the user should *not care* what the app does (and does not) on a Mac, right Steve...

;)

Cheers, Oliver (Mac user since a few months)

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Oliver Knoll
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