Re: Packager
Re: Packager
- Subject: Re: Packager
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:27:49 EST
This conversation is still going on???
In a message dated 02/02/2004 18:41:42, email@hidden writes:
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How do you know? That's exactly what I normally do. Yet another reason
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to hate installers that invariably install to /Applications. If the
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user does not know how to copy/move something to /Applications he's
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probably not supposed to do so anyway. And by requiring /Applications
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as install path you are also requiring administrator privileges from
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the user which he might not have nor need to just run your app.
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Applications doesn't require root access, installing linked frameworks does,
trusting someone to move a file destroying it's priviledges isn't a wise idea
so this point is invalid if it's more technical than you are aware of which is
usually the case.
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Really? Well, I consider myself a fairly advanced user and I find it
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needlessly difficult.
You may be an advanced user but everyone else might not be.
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1. Apple is an exception from the rule (I trust Apple - I don't trust
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the developer of an app I have never before heard about).
If you are that untrusting of software from a developer you've never heard
about then don't use the installer package and do without the software.
Time to put this to rest people.......
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