Making installation smoother

Brendan Murphy bmurphy at truenorthsoftware.com
Wed Feb 18 10:29:52 CST 2009


Now that 4.0 is out, I would like to draw attention to some
organizational issues with the downloads. I am only speaking about
the REALbasic downloads, but these ideas may apply to the other
distributions.

For REALbasic, you have four downloads including...

- Valentina for REALbasic for Linux
- Valentina for REALbasic for Mac OS X (Universal Binary)
- Valentina for REALbasic for Mac OS X (PPC)
- Valentina for REALbasic for Windows

Since REALbasic is a cross platform development system, this
arrangement makes it inconvenient to update my software. For
example, I develop for the OS X and Windows and my primary
development system is OS X. This means I have to download and
install the OS X and Windows version to get all the libraries I
need to build the Windows version on my Mac.

What is needed is a more complete download that has all the
necessary files to build for all platforms. Maybe you should have
separate downloads for the libraries for each platform so that we
can download them and include them with our applications as
needed.

- Valentina Libraries for Linux
- Valentina Libraries for Mac OS X (Universal Binary)
- Valentina Libraries for Mac OS X (PPC)
- Valentina Libraries for Windows

In the future when I upgrade, I pull down the appropriate
downloads.

- Valentina for REALbasic for Mac OS X (Universal Binary)
- Valentina Libraries for Windows

This saves a bunch of looking around for libraries buried in
folders under Windows after doing an install to just get the
libraries.

Also missing from the main Mac installer is the
INSTALL_VCOMPONENTS_V4RB script that is meant for those libraries.
In general, I should have everything I need to work with the
software from the installer.



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