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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: Thomas Harrington <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:56:21 -0600

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 11:06 AM, Greg Robbins wrote:
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.

Yes-- if, as you suggest, you're dealing with an application. However this doesn't work in the case being considered here, i.e. a preference pane. It needs to be in the correct location before it can be launched. Which negates the whole point of creating a symlink.

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Tom Harrington
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