Re: Deploying Cocoa Applications
Re: Deploying Cocoa Applications
- Subject: Re: Deploying Cocoa Applications
- From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:47:13 -0400
Off-list because it's off-topic, but ...
You wrote:
On Jun 16, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Jerrod Fowkes wrote:
What is the most accepted / professional way of deploying a true
cocoa native mac os x application?
IMHO, the best way is to distribute a disk image and allow users to
install the application via drag and drop. The only problem with this
method is it occasionally confuses some users, mainly System 7/8/9
and Windows migrants who expect that everything they acquire has an
automatic installer.
For future reference, no System 7/8/9 users will be confused by this.
Installers have been an anomaly on the Mac for 22 years; drag-and-
drop installation has been the norm since the machine shipped, even
for categories of product for which an installer _is_ recommended
under OS X.
For Windows, on the other hand, providing an installer has been a
hard requirement of anything that wasn't distributed on a single
floppy bearing the "Windows-compatible" logo for the last decade.
(Weirdly, the requirement makes no mention of the complexity of the
install. A single binary that can be installed anywhere or even run
from its distribution media that happens to be on CD because it's 2MB
needs an installer. A complex system enhancement comprising 138 files
that need to go in specific locations to even think about working
doesn't as long as you can squeeze it onto a single 3.5" disk.)
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