Re: Installer
Re: Installer
- Subject: Re: Installer
- From: "Marcus S. Zarra" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:23:22 -0700
Just to add another voice in the support of the avoidance of installers.
Unless the app needs to install something in a system area (which is
not necessary for almost every application) the app should not use an
installer. It should be a simple drag, drop, execute. When the user
is done with the application they should expect that they can drag it
to their trash and be done with it.
Installers really are not needed and should not be used for user
level applications. Developers should have a very good reason before
they even consider sticking something in a system area. Now if we
are talking about a print driver or another low level item like a
device driver then a package/installer makes sense.
Personally, when I run across an application that uses an installer I
seriously question if it is worth the hassle. An installer tells me
that if I want to remove this application it is going to be a hassle
to track down all the junk that got installed.
On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Ondra Cada wrote:
j o a r,
On 21.3.2006, at 17:38, j o a r wrote:
Finally, a lot of apps that have installers today are also using
them to install things I'm not the least interested in having.
Abusing our (faint) trust in installers. Like M$ Office among
other things writing it's installer log file at the root of the
file system. Or Stuffit Expander installing it's freaking shared
framework. Be gone!
On the other hand, let's be grateful they use installer properly
(well, that is, *if* they do -- I fear at least Stuffit stil uses
the Vise cr** instead), so that all these things are properly
recorded in receipts. That's an extreme advantage of an installer,
and solely for it, I *as a user* would happily use packages for
*any* install, including the smallest and lest important tic-tac-
toe test app :)
In my POV, it's *ways and ways* better than if the apps intalled
the stuff their goddamned programmers considered worth installing
themselves at the first launch (as I suspect you was advocating, or
did I read something too quickly? :))
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Ondra Čada
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