Re: Spotlight Plugins don't immediately work?

Subject: Re: Spotlight Plugins don't immediately work?

From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>

Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 01:48:45 -0400

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On May 3, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Lee Morgan wrote:

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"

I think Working with Spotlight was written before it was possible to do this. It's in the current documentation that it is supported in your application wrapper. (in multiple places, but this is one occurance)

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/MDImporters/Concepts/Troubleshooting.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001690-222637>

And it does work

<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.

Well, Apple has said that if you use an installer, you should run the command line thing to fix things up. Not necessarily the same thing as use an installer.

I'd suggest filing a bug that says that this needs to be worked out automatically when the importer is found by launch services.

"William Cheeseman ... is said not to be a doofus in real life." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Online

Scott Anguish

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References:
	>Re: Spotlight Plugins don't immediately work? (From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Spotlight Plugins don't immediately work? (From: Lee Morgan <email@hidden>)
	>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>)
	>Re: Spotlight Plugins don't immediately work? (From: Lee Morgan <email@hidden>)