Chapter 12. Packaging your applications
If your applications are only executed on the systems where you are developing and debugging, no software installation is required. However, applications are most likely developed on development and test systems, then installed on production systems.
The software installation tasks are commonly performed by customers or other people who might not have enough knowledge about your applications. Even if you have prepared the detailed software installation instruction for your applications, there is no guarantee that those people follow your instruction; you have no control where they try to install your applications.
By creating your application packages, the required conditions, such as supported operating ...
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