Soylatte installers and other distribution questions

[Steven W Riggins]

Greetings!

I'm Steve Riggins and I am the Mac guy on an open source project,  
Sophie 2 (http://www.sophieproject.org/).  I am not much a of a Java  
person, but being the only Mac user on the team, it is my job to  
ensure everything is easy to use.

The project is still very early, so there is not much to see, but  
we're coming up against the Java 6 for Mac OS X issue.  Our engineers  
are determining whether we can go back to 5 or not, but in the  
meantime I need to understand what I can do to make using SoyLatte  
easier for our users.

Currently, we've linked 32 bit Intel users to the Soy Latte page and  
have written some poor instructions on how to install SoyLatte.  This  
obviously needs to improve, but I need to understand what can be done  
to make installation of a SoyLatte runtime easier for end users.

We understand that we cannot deep link to the SoyLatte binaries, but  
we are being pressured by universities to make the installation  
process one that just requires a double click.  Is there any work  
being done in this area?  Is it against the license and I just missed  
it?  Can we contribute this to the project and get it included with  
the release?

I also noticed that SoyLatte doesn't appear to run on any PPC Macs.  I  
don't have one to test with.  Is this true?

Lastly, as an open source project, I want to make sure we're not  
abusing any licenses that SoyLatte is under by using it for our  
project (32bit intel and Tiger).

Thank you for your hard work in making this possible at all and thank  
you for your input!

Steve
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