Re: An idea about .app bundles on Windows

[Adrian Robert]

> > 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).

Might as well use a compressed zip file.  Uncompress time on a modern 
CPU is practically negligible compared with app startup time, which has 
(sadly) kept pace with hardware developments.  Disk space, though cheap 
as people like to point out, has a way of not being around when you 
need it, and being a pain to add.

Also, zip files don't compress the table of contents, so browsing (in 
VFS-enabled file browsers) doesn't hit the compression penalty.