[moderator] Re: While we're on the subject of DMG's for software distribution...
[moderator] Re: While we're on the subject of DMG's for software distribution...
- Subject: [moderator] Re: While we're on the subject of DMG's for software distribution...
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:21:27 -0400
probably best not to debate this particular aspect of things...
As I said, I'll about getting this clarified in the docs, and a
consistent message in it.
On 10-Sep-08, at 3:40 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:
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.
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