Klik is a system which creates self-contained packages of programmes installable over the web with a single click. In this article Kurt Pfeifle discusses the potential uses of this technology for helping the non-coding contributors to KDE. He also looks at how the system works and the obvious security issues involved.
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Member since:I don't see how is it in the style of OSX though.
As in drag & drop style installing. The application is statically linked, all the libraries it depends on are compiled within the application, it doesn't depend on system installed libraries. This is to cure the so called 'dependancy hell'.
The downside is statically compiled applications are much bigger in file size, but nowadays this shouldn't be a problem but it also makes updating more cumbersome. Instead of updating a dynamic library, zlib for for example used in all c apps, you have to download updates for every application. If you want to keep up with security updates that is.
I use OSX and really like the drag & drop but i still prefer the debian way.
Member since:2005-07-14
Not only are their bigger on disk (no-one cares), on the network (some might care + compression helps), statically linked apps are bigger in RAM as well and that still hurts.
I too prefer using a system, which know which files to download, to searching and downloading the files one-by-one.
On the other hand, some of the proposed uses are good - install without having root, easy to install for non-technical types (translators, UI designers). For these reasons, I wish the luck and success with this project, though I probably won't use it.
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2005-07-08
Well it looks cool, the site is easy to navigate and everything. I don't see how is it in the style of OSX though.