Re: Installer on Mac
Re: Installer on Mac
- Subject: Re: Installer on Mac
- From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:02:21 -0700
At 1:28 PM +0200 5/12/06, Lieven Cardoen wrote:
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?
I think Mac users prefer simple drag-installable apps. Using a Disk
Image is the most direct route, but there's nothing wrong with using
a full blown installer if you think your users would be more
comfortable with the hand-holding that provides.
Even with an 'installer' though, most Mac users will expect that your
application can be simply copied from one machine to another and run.
Using an installer to scatter auxiliary files all over the system is
considered poor form.
-pmb
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