Re: Best approach to write an uninstaller for osx
Re: Best approach to write an uninstaller for osx
- Subject: Re: Best approach to write an uninstaller for osx
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:44:56 +0100
On 22.11.2009, at 01:50, Jens Alfke wrote:
> Sure, you can do that. As I said, there's no particular trick for deleting the uninstaller. The filesystem won't stop you from deleting your own binary (or moving it to the trash.)
>
> I've seen uninstallers in the form of AppleScripts. They're easy to package up in double-clickable form and they can easily tell the Finder to move things to the trash.
Well, you may want to quit your app before you delete it, though (and refuse to uninstall until the user has quit it). Files may only actually get deleted when they're closed, but all the resources in your file package will generally only be opened as needed, and will thus be deleted immediately. If a resource your app needs to save the currently open file or that's otherwise needed has already been deleted, you could corrupt user data.
-- Uli Kusterer
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