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Re: Spotlight Plugins don't immediately work?

On May 3, 2005, at 2:37 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
    Spotlight importers can reside within the application's bundle, so this isn't going to help. Especially for drag and drop installs.

Um... I was unaware that Spotlight importers could reside within the app's bundle - I've only read the following from "Working with Spotlight"

<snip>
Once the meta-data plug-in is built and has been tested, you make it available for Spotlight's use by putting it into one of the following directories:

~/Library/MDImporters
/Library/MDImporters
</snip>

With that stated, I believe that for new versions of app's, that the app should give the user the option of installing (and removing) the importer for it's files.
However for currently shipping apps that developers wish to provide a simple Spotlight importer download for current users I still think a Apple Script is the best way to go.
Of course Apple has stated that developers should provide an install for this - I personally think an installer for a Spotlight importer (or any plug-in for that matter) is overkill.

just my two cents,
lee
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 >Re: Spotlight Plugins don't immediately work? (From: Howard Griffith <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Spotlight Plugins don't immediately work? (From: Lee Morgan <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Spotlight Plugins don't immediately work? (From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>)



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