I wish to make an installer for Mac, but this is an
answer from someone on the Director Mailing List :
> Does anybody have experience with making Mac
Installers?
>
>
>
> I see there's an application named
"installer" included in Mac Os X.
> Is it to be trusted? Or are there other alternatives
which are better?
yes, make a bundle put it on a nicely layouted diskimage,
which opens automatically, and leave it to the user to drag the application,
where the user considers appropriately.
that's the way it is supposed to work on OSX.
installers are only necessary, if you want to actually
install system services, but an application should simply be a drag and drop
install, wherever I like it to live on my HD. I think the average mac user is
not only used to that, but also capable of drag installing an app and might
even be offended, if you treat him as being too stupid to drag install an
application.
I'd even go one step further: a simple application, which
needs an installer is something, which I usually don't even install, as I
think, that it is looking for trouble to run applications, which were made by
developers, which don't even know the basics of my OS.
It seems Mac-users don’t like the idea of an
installer. Is this true?
Thx, Lieven Cardoen
lieven cardoen
indiegroup
interactive digital
experience
engelse wandeling 2 k18
b8500 kortrijk
T +32
(0)56/361 197
//
communicatie bij voorkeur op lieven.cardoen@indiegroup.be