Re: [OT] Installation into home directory
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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