Re: More - Safari Download Security Alerts
Re: More - Safari Download Security Alerts
- Subject: Re: More - Safari Download Security Alerts
- From: Dave <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:26:01 +0000
On 15 Dec 2008, at 18:04, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
On Dec 15, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Dave wrote:
Why doesn't drag and drop work?
AFAIK it does work, but my boss wants to be able to display a
"T&C" page etc. and he wants an installer. Also it isn't a
straight forward .app file, it's an App file that is in a folder
that also also contains other folders/files.
As others have indicated, a T&C page on mounting of the DMG is
likely easier.
Does your app *have* to be in /Applications? If so, that means
all the users with non-admin accounts won't be able to install
the app (and if you require read/write to anything in that
folder, they can't use it either-- nor can multiple users on one
machine).
No, it doesn't have to be in "/Applications", but this is the
recommended place to put it if you want it to be accessible to all
users on the machine, isn't it? If not where does it get stored?
That's where every other app is stored and it's where it has been
stored up until now (using the AppleScript Installer) and I
haven't had any problems reported of people not being able to
access it, or are you saying it won't be accessible using a
PackageMaker installer?
(This is actually on topic for Cocoa...)
/Applications is fine if you want the application to be accessible
to all users on the machine. The issues are:
(1) Your application should not write any user-specific data
anywhere within /Applications (including inside the .app wrapper
obviously). That is, /Applications should be treated as read-only
beyond initial installation (many advanced users -- myself included
-- run with their primary account not having administrator rights.)
It doesn't write any user specific data within "/Applications", any
files it does create and in the current users "home" folder, in a
folder for the Application.
(2) Non-administrative users would not be able to install your
application, if it is required to be in /Applications (which it
doesn't sound like it is). Drag-n-drop is easier for non-admin
users to deal with.
Only admin's are required to install the App.
All the Best
Dave
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