software-distribution

I just finished porting an application from Windows into Linux. I have to create an installer of the application. The application is not open source => I should distribute the application's binaries (executable file, couple .so files, help files and images). I found several methods to do it: - RPM and DEB packages ; - installer in .sh files ; - Autopackage . I don't like first method (RPM and DEB packages) because I don't want to mantain different packages for different Linux distros. What is the best way to distribute a binary application for Linux? Having been through this a couple of times

I am looking for a good development tool that will help me track revisions of software I am creating, and that is web based. Just looking for suggestions on what others use. And not one that is hosted through another solution but that I can host myself. Flavius Stef http://github.com/ (git), http://bitbucket.org/ (mercurial/git) VonC The best one (that you can host yourself) would be: Atlassian FishEye (which includes source browsing features ) Not free, but you can have up to ten users with 10$ (or even free for open-source project ). Works with Subversion, Git, CVS, Perforce, ClearCase, and

I've got an iPhone app with icon file Icon.png. This icon shows up properly when the app is on the phone itself, but it doesn't show up in the applications pane in iTunes. What do I need to do to get it to show up properly? The cleanest way to do this is described in the official Apple documentation, in a section called Publishing Applications for Testing . Below is the exact instructions given to you on that page: The iTunes artwork your testers see should be your application’s icon. This artwork must be a 512 x 512 JPEG or PNG file named iTunesArtwork . Note that the file must not have an

Is there any way besides Shoes to develop and distribute cross-platform GUI desktop applications written in Ruby? I come to believe that general bugginess of _why's applications is exceptionally crippling in case of Shoes, and anything more complex than a two-button form is a pain to maintain. RubyGTK, wxRuby, etc seem to be promising, but they do not solve the issue of distributing an app in a way that doesn't require Ruby pre-installed on users' computers — and libraries like ruby2exe seem to be horribly out-of-date and incomplete. Generally — what is the current fad? BTW: if there is a

So, after 6 months of hard work finally released my application. Today I found the first web site where people download it cracked, and I was wondering if any of you fellow programmers know how to react to such stuff? Is there anything the software author can do to get the cracked version offline, or I'm just boned and shouldn't create anymore software, but just work on client's projects? What's your advice? Anybody with experience in that? edit: programming is what I do- so no question about whether or not continuing, just is that clients pay per project in real money, and I still don't know

I am writing an application in Java for the desktop using the Eclipse SWT library for GUI rendering. I think SWT helps Java get over the biggest hurdle for acceptance on the desktop: namely providing a Java application with a consistent, responsive interface that looks like that belonging to any other app on your desktop. However, I feel that packaging an application is still an issue. OS X natively provides an easy mechanism for wrapping Java apps in native application bundles, but producing an app for Windows/Linux that doesn't require the user to run an ugly batch file or click on a .jar is