Re: PackageMaker installing into /Applications or ~/Applications depending on admin or not?
Re: PackageMaker installing into /Applications or ~/Applications depending on admin or not?
- Subject: Re: PackageMaker installing into /Applications or ~/Applications depending on admin or not?
- From: "Michael Ash" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:45:09 -0500
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Chris Markle <email@hidden> wrote:
> We have an installer for our current app that use Vise. We'd like to
> switch maybe to PackageMaker and its artifacts. One thing that the
> Vise-created install does is get installed to /Applications if you're
> and admin and to ~/Applications if you're a standard user. Does anyone
> know if PackageMaker does the same thing? Or can it be motivated to do
> so? I plan on trying this myself but I'm a PackageMaker newby and am
> concerned about the influence of various settings on my experiments...
If all you're installing is this application then you should consider
just not having an installer at all. It's very common to simply
provide applications either as .zip files or on disk images and let
the user copy it where he wants. Easier for you, more flexible for
them.
Mike
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