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Benefits of Using Bundles

Bundles provide a variety of important advantages over the traditional Mac OS 9 software packaging scheme.

• A single bundle can support multiple chip architectures (PowerPC, x86), library architectures (CFM, Mach-O), and other special executables (for example, optimized libraries for the Velocity Engine).


• A single bundle can support multiple languages through an internationalization architecture. You can easily add new localized resources or remove unwanted ones.


• Bundles can reside on volumes of many different formats, including multiple fork formats like HFS, HFS+, and AFP, and single-fork formats like UFS, SMB, and NFS.


• You can index and access Help files and other bundle information resources through Sherlock.


• You can install, relocate, and remove bundles simply by dragging them.

Versioned bundles, described in the next section, “Anatomy of a Bundle”, do not share the first two features in the above list, namely support for multiple chip architectures and an executable that can run on the various Mac OS systems.

Last updated: 2003-08-21

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