Re: How Create Installer for a Cocoa Application
Re: How Create Installer for a Cocoa Application
- Subject: Re: How Create Installer for a Cocoa Application
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:02:03 -0800
On Mar 2, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Todd Yandell wrote:
However, if you do need to install some important files outside of your Application's bundle, you should use the PackageMaker utility that's included with the developer tools. It allows you to create standard Mac-like installers that include all of the features you will need. The documentation included with this utility goes into all of the details.
It's assuming a bit much to say that PackageMaker will always include "all of the features you will need."
We use a custom installer. We don't install to any special places or require authentication. Why, then, would we do this? Because our installer is decompressing tons of data on the fly. We use an assortment of tricks that take advantage of our data's layout which no off-the-shelf installation product could do.
Is it worth it? Well, operations sure thinks so, since it saved at least a CD's worth of data in one case (and I think there are edge cases where you could say we saved two CD's worth).
I think it isn't unreasonable to demand a
well-written installer, and yes it's arguable whether the VISE products live up to that goal any more. They are far too OS 9-centric to work well in an OS X world (although I think some of their recent offerings might be better—I haven't looked into it recently).
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