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Re: [OT] Software Delivery (was Re: Why do "loose" nibs take precedence over nibs in .lproj?)
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Re: [OT] Software Delivery (was Re: Why do "loose" nibs take precedence over nibs in .lproj?)


  • Subject: Re: [OT] Software Delivery (was Re: Why do "loose" nibs take precedence over nibs in .lproj?)
  • From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:22:30 +0100

At 7:00 Uhr -0500 22.01.2005, Charlton Wilbur wrote:
Also, there will be a central repository of plugins, both official and user-created. (Part of the incentive to allow the computer to phone home and verify its registration is that the user will be notified of new plugins for download.) Is it reasonable (with the user's explicit permission, of course) to download these to the desktop and allow the user to deposit them wherever he or she wishes? Or is it preferable to download them directly to where they belong, perhaps by using user defaults? In particular, I'd like to leave it up to the user whether to use the system-wide Library or the user-specific Library.

I like the approach taken by System Preferences, Adium and the likes: Build the installer for your plugins into your app. Register your plugin type as a document type for your app and, when the user opens one of the plugins, have your app copy it to ~/Library/Application Support/MyApp/Plugins/.


Display a message telling them this was done and that they can now get rid of the file if they want.

That is very easy to explain to your users, and advanced users can just take the files themselves and drop them in /Library/Application Support/... or wherever they want, if they know that's better. Or your app can offer that, like System Prefs does. Depends on who your target audience are, and whether you want to encourage that your users install those additional plugins system-wide.
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