Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1598
Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1598
- Subject: Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1598
- From: Bill Royds <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:32:25 -0400
On 10-Sep-08, at 04:59 , email@hidden wrote:
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.
But you are not a typical user so your preferences are not the most
important.
Most users who want to install software only want to b able to click
on the downloaded package and have it install.It might ask some
questions like password or ask whether you want advanced control, but
even the concept of moving to /Applications is more than most users
want to know.
Windows installers are much easier for naive users to handle than
anything that requires knowledge of the system structure such as drag
and drop to /Applications.
Of course, it is still better to have a simple install logic and a
bundled app that you could drag and drop to /Applications is better
than one that requires many different steps. probably the double click
on an app package should just invoke a shell script the\at does
sudo cp MyApp.app /Applications
with the sudo password prompt in a gui window.
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