Re: Installer
Re: Installer
- Subject: Re: Installer
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:13:08 +0100
John,
On 21.3.2006, at 15:17, John Stiles wrote:
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.)
Not quite. The run-up script (if any, and I do agree there should be
none for 99.99 % of apps) generally needs to access and change the
installed app itself. That, though, is possible only with an admin
authentificaiton, which is of course natural for the Installer, but
which would no user who value his personal data ever grant to the
application itself (unless he wrote it himself :))
Note that there's an extremely good reason an installer script is a
script (and not a binary): you can easily check what it does *before*
you grant it the privileges to access your admin realm.
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Ondra Čada
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