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

[Atlant Schmidt]

Oliver:

> 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)?

  Don't Macs usually keep *EVERYTHING RELATING TO THE APP*
  confined to a single folder*? (The system then makes this
  folder appear to the casual user as a single file.)

  In this way, the uninstall process on a Mac is simply to
  trash the folder, in the exact same way that a user would
  discard anything else on the Mac.

  (The issue of deleting a failed "preferences" file is a
  bit more of a valid point, but failed preference files are
  a lot less common than they used to be back in the old
  Macintosh operating system.)

                           Atlant



* Well, except for items that are created in system temporary
  directories.


-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 6:28 AM
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] [OT] Politically Correct way to release an Open Source Qt Project

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
Dipl. Informatik-Ing. ETH
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