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Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications)
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Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications)


  • Subject: Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications)
  • From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:43:12 -0500


On Feb 21, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:

Gregory Weston wrote:

To which I reiterate my prior comment: For more than a year now, Apple has been recommending the use of installer packages for all deployments.

Apple is recommending installer packages instead of drag-and-drop installation of app bundles? Since when? Can you point to any docs about this?

The recommendation changed with the release of 10.5. I was surprised and annoyed when someone pointed it out to me, not least because at the time Apple had dueling recommendations in the documentation. Some pages asserted that as of 10.5 installer packages were the way to go, while other related pages had not been revised recently and so still recommended the drag install when possible. The rationale was about providing a consistent installation experience across all categories of software for all levels of user, and supporting remote installs by network admins.


That said, I'm having trouble finding any page today that contains that recommendation. With any luck that means it's been retracted, rather than that I'm just having trouble coming up with the correct search terms.

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