Is App in Resources App Bundle Evil?
Is App in Resources App Bundle Evil?
- Subject: Is App in Resources App Bundle Evil?
- From: kalexm <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:55:41 +0100
Hello all,
I'm new to the list and somewhat new to OSX (not iphone!) development. I spent ten years most of my time in java so it was a hurdle..
I am currently developing an app (APP-A) which does PDF manipulation. I have a second app (APP-B), that provides a PDF Viewer which is older.
APP-A depends on APP-B as it uses APP-B for viewing manipulated PDFs. APP-B is independent from APP-A.
I could put both apps into Applications. But if a User don't know what APP-B is for as he might only wan't APP-A but didn't see the dependency, he might delete APP-B and APP-A cannot work properly anymore.
To solve this I put APP-B into the resources of APP-A, and it works to launch the app from this directory. I have not found any documentation from apple or mailing-lists if this is unwanted, problematic or somewhat evil!? The launchd finds the 'hidden' APP-B and behaves as expected...
Is this allowed and recommendable, or how could I solve this alternatively and I don't want to merge the apps!?
best,
Alex_______________________________________________
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