On Jun 6, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Michael Ljunggren wrote: Coming from the Windows platform I am struck by this lack of uninstallation functionality on OSX. It is certainly simpler to drag the app to the thrash, but my problem is not an app, but a plug-in. I could certainly write a shell script to search and remove the remaining bits, but it would would be non-trivial when you need administrator rights. And if the user has to run a script to uninstall our stuff, why would they need to "just drag the app to thrash" too? And WHY should we write an extra add-on to the installation/uninstallation process when the IN-stallation process works so excellent in the first place? Anyway; what I was primarily asking was advice about this procedure. The end user must come first. How to do this in a simple way?
The honest truth is, this functionality has always been missing from Mac OS X, and the "simplest" thing is to provide a shell script or AppleScript to go and delete everything, and ask for permissions first.
Yes, that sucks. Sorry.
Yes, Apple has heard about this many times, and has not as of yet provided any better solution. As an employee, I am forbidden from announcing any new functionality or any future plans. I think we all hope that Apple announces something about this at WWDC this year.
Until Apple announces something, all we can do on this list is agree that it sucks, and provide ideas for alternate solutions such as shell scripts or AppleScripts.
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