Just another non-installer application distribution plan
A lot of people1 know of klik, the software distribution method that allows people to download pre-built software packages and use this without installation.
I have many griefs about klik, mostly as I think it killed the mind share for Zero Install before it has a chance to pick up. I think that Zero Install is a much better system due to many reasons, but klik also suffers from the same problem that Zero Install has – it requires installing a run-time component to support it, which kinds of beats the point of the whole process.
- People that use Linux and are interested in software development, not a lot of people generally – of course [↩]