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Mac OS X intoduced an innovative and very useful way to package applications : app bundles.
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Mac OS X intoduced an innovative and very useful way to package applications : app bundles.
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While their design has all that is needed to ease distribution of resources and frameworks, it
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seems like dynamic libraries (.dylib) are very complicated to distribute. Sure, applications developped
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seems like dynamic libraries (.dylib) are very complicated to distribute. Sure, applications developed
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specifically for OS X won't make use of them, however applications ported from Linux or other Unices may have
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specifically for OS X won't make use of them, however applications ported from Linux or other Unices may have
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dependencies that will only compile as dylibs. By default, there exists no mecanism to bundle them but some command-line utilities provided by Apple - however it turns out that for a single program it is often necessary to issue dozens of commands! This often leads each porter to develop their own "home solution" wich are often hacky, poorly portable and/or unoptimal.
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dependencies that will only compile as dylibs. By default, there exists no mecanism to bundle them but some command-line utilities provided by Apple - however it turns out that for a single program it is often necessary to issue dozens of commands! This often leads each porter to develop their own "home solution" wich are often hacky, poorly portable and/or unoptimal.
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