Re: Installer
Re: Installer
- Subject: Re: Installer
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:17:46 -0800
j o a r wrote:
On 21 mar 2006, at 08.22, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
- permissions are correctly set and they can be fixed if needed by
Disk Utility. Not a perfect solution, but a good solution.
Broken permissions is mostly voodoo, don't you agree? How often does
your custom installed applications fail because of problems with
permissions?
It doesn't matter anyway. "Repair Permissions" will not fix your app's
permissions. From what I'm told, it only looks at a special hard-coded
list of receipts when it does its work. So, unless you name your receipt
"iTunes.pkg", I think this 'advantage' is a red herring ;)
I think most of this discussion has focused on the idea that an app
/needs/ a magical script to run when it is first installed. For most
apps, this is a non-issue. (And scripts are so 1970s! Let's write real
code!) But, for apps where it does matter, why not have the app itself
run that script when it is executed for the very first time? Then the
app can be drag-and-drop-installed like 99% of the apps on Mac OS X, and
the setup phase will happen quickly and invisibly. (Unless you need root
privs, which is a separate argument-filled can of worms.)
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