Re: An idea about .app bundles on Windows

[Marcus Müller]

On 13.12.2004, at 15:19, Nicolas Roard wrote:

> Début du message réexpédié :
>
> > De: David Chisnall <address@hidden>
> > Date: 13 décembre 2004 09:02:07 GMT+00:00
> > À: Nicolas Roard <address@hidden>
> > Objet: An idea about .app bundles on Windows
> >
> > As I recall, you can't associate an application with a folder with a 
> > certain extension in Windows, so you can't make .app bundles launch 
> > automatically.  If you put the bundle inside (for example) an 
> > uncompressed zip file (keeping the .app extension), then you would be 
> > able to associate these with a modified version of openapp that would 
> > recognise them (and possibly modify the classes that look inside a 
> > bundle so that they can look inside the file).
> > This might also be useful for people using KDE/GNOME and some GNUstep 
> > apps.

Yeah, let's call them ".appz" :-)

Cheers,

  Marcus

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