Hi,
On 10.10.2014, at 22:40, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi--
> 
> Chris Muller> We talked about it in last week's board meeting.  We
> Chris Muller> decided there is merit to staying with an All-In-One but
> Chris Muller> there was a discussion about whether there should be
> Chris Muller> shortcuts in the main directory for each platform.
> 
> Tobias> From how I understood Craig, this won't work with a signed AIO.
> Tobias> I would go for an unsigned one.
> 
>     Chris is referring to a suggestion to create sibling files to the
> .app folder, each of which is a platform-dependent script that launches
> the app. E.g., on Linux you would put a Squeak4.5.app folder in
> /usr/local/bin (for example), there is a script /usr/local/bin/squeak4.5
> which starts the app, and you include /usr/local/bin in your executable
> search paths. The "main directory" Chris mentions would be a new
> directory in the release artifact, containing the .app folder and the
> launch scripts.
> 

ugh, I wouldn't like that. but I am mostly a Mac user, so my vote doesn't
really count here…

Best
	-Tobias


>     The suggestion had nothing to do with signatures, but rather with a
> longstanding complaint by a board member about having to descend into
> the .app folder to start the app on non-Mac platforms, no matter how
> deep (specifically, in .app as before, or, as I made it to work with
> Apple's new signing rules, .app/Contents/LinuxAndWindows).
> 
>     Personally, I make explicit Linux shell aliases and Windows
> shortcuts for launching each Squeak release I have. I have so many VMs
> floating around that I don't trust executable search paths to work
> correctly. Of course, it'd be better if those platforms would finally
> decide on a way of representing a self-contained app; it could just live
> anywhere in a filesystem, be found through search, and launched from the
> search interface. This is how I launch most apps on the Mac (from
> Spotlight).
> 
>     Anyway, we may as well continue signing the .app folder.
> 
> 
> -C
> 
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