suggestion [was: Re: GNUSTEP/linux]

[Martin Brecher]

Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> I am not sure if this is real, but this can be nice. GNUstep projects 
> are mainly bundles. What about having a small set of debs or rpms for 
> installing the very base system and then tar.gz-ed bundles of binaries? 
> This can show one of advantages of GNUstep environment: to install an 
> app/framework/bundle, you just drang and drop ito appropriate place and 
> to unsinstall you just throw it into rubbish.

Bundle directories are already very nice. But couldn't this be expanded 
to have one-file bundles like MyApp.app.zip, 
MyLoadableBundle.bundle.zip, MyWindow.gorm.zip?

This would allow to _really_ easily export bundles on the web or per 
email or the like. "Hey, just drop my app [.app.zip] into your 
Applications folder and you're ready to go."

Users won't even have to extract them first. Otherwise FreeTar.app would 
be a Chicken and Egg problem for gui-only users. ;-)

OpenOffice uses zipped folders for its documents I find that quite nice.

I guess it won't work for frameworks which are needed at compile time, 
though.

Greetings,
Martin