Re: While we're on the subject of DMG's for software distribution...
Re: While we're on the subject of DMG's for software distribution...
- Subject: Re: While we're on the subject of DMG's for software distribution...
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:40:41 -0500
On Sep 9, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
The poster didn't say why he assumes the Software Delivery Guide to
be more
authoritative. The only evidence I'm aware of is that the Software
Delivery
Guide was last updated over two years ago, in July 2006, before
Leopard was
released. The PackageMaker User Guide is a year newer, and it states
that it
applies to Leopard. On that evidence, I'm more inclined to think the
PackageMaker User Guide is authoritative with respect to Leopard.
Well, the Software Delivery Guide is, as the name suggests, the guide
to how you should deliver software, and is not intended to be a usage
manual for any one specific method. The PackageMaker manual is a
document describing how to use one specific application for software
delivery, written by people who probably *would* like you to use their
product. To my mind, it's like the difference between getting polling
data from an independent polling site vs. getting data from Obama or
McCain's web site.
Anyway, if Mac software starts heading back down the road to
everything having an installer, the appeal of the Mac platform vs.
Windows will be severely diminished in my eyes. Drag and drop puts the
user in control - installers put the user at their mercy. Whenever I
see an installer that does nothing but put an app in /Applications, I
tend to think twice about using that app, because it's often a sign of
a poorly thought out product. Often I will send an e-mail to the
author complaining about this as well.
Charles
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