Unfriendly packages for OS X installation/upgrading

Sebastian Dröge sebastian at centricular.com
Mon Jul 11 21:09:17 UTC 2016


On Mo, 2016-07-11 at 11:17 -0700, Mischa Spiegelmock wrote:
> Hello, from the perspective of someone on OS X trying to
> install/upgrade gstreamer I wanted to give feedback that the user
> experience leaves much to be desired. 
> 
> The website says:
> Mac OS X
> A .framework for Mac OS X can be found here. It is provided and
> maintained by the GStreamer project.
> 
> I click “here” and get an apache directory listing of versions. Not
> the friendliest thing. The common case is I want the latest version.
> Could be nicer.

Indeed, that should come together with a website that in general looks
like from this century ;)

> Find the latest version, click the “dmg” file, end up with this:

That's exactly the problem: you want the .pkg files.

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
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