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Re: [OT] Installation into home directory
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Re: [OT] Installation into home directory


  • Subject: Re: [OT] Installation into home directory
  • From: Greg Robbins <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:06:52 -0700

At 10:36 AM -0600 8/18/03, Thomas Harrington wrote:
In general I agree, however in the specific case of a preference pane I think an installer is warranted.

Often you can avoid both requiring an installer and scattering code throughout the system by putting just an alias file or symlink into the desired system location when your application launches.

So long as the dependencies work with an alias or symlink, and they don't fail in a catastrophic way once that alias or symlink eventually breaks, it's quite a bit cleaner and more robust than requiring an installer and uninstaller. Placing an alias or symlink instead of code also helps to reduce the need for testing code built for varying versions of your application, since an old version of the plug-in is not likely to get run against the new version of your application.

Greg Robbins
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