AW: AW: How to generate a runnable Mac standalone from Windows

[Bill Vlahos]

I've found that most Windows users not only expect to use an installer they are lost without one. The blank stares you get from a Windows user when you say, "Just copy the file and open it" are precious.

Bill Vlahos
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On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> On 18/03/2010 18:18, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>> Technically yes. But the install for most Mac applications is simply to drag copy the application itself or a folder to the desired location. This is usually the Applications folder but my program can run from a USB drive, the desktop, or any other area the user wants.
>> 
> My Devawriter (Windows and Macintosh versions alike) can work from wherever they are unzipped or
> dragged - doesn't really matter. So far I have tried them on the desktops, on a USB drive, on a USB external
> hard drive, and (for Mac) on a Firewire external hard drive; have also run the Windows version on my
> headless Windows XP box while the program was sitting on an HFS+ volume on the PPC Mac!
> 
> This was NOT crafty programming on my part; this is just the way RunRev 4 rolled up the stacks into
> standalones.
> 
> So . . . this whole discussion seems a bit unnecessary . . .  :)
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