Will this work on Mac
Classic? (packagemaker)
Ps : thx for the replies,
I’ve become much wiser.
My concern is that I make
cd’s for educational purpose, so I guess the cd will come into hands of
customers who don’t have a lot of experience with computers. In this
case, I assume an installer is easier… The purpose of the installer is
not to go and copy files all over the system. The application can even be run
from a cd, but I wish to force user to run it from harddisk because
there’s lot of reading sound, images, … and running it from cd
slows down the app a lot…
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[mailto:installer-dev-bounces+lieven.cardoen=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Andy O'Meara
Sent: zaterdag 13 mei 2006 5:21
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Installer on Mac
While we’re talking about PackageMaker , any word on if we’ll be
seeing any major new additions/changes this August? Or, at the least,
fixes to PackageMaker 2.1? Anyone else here still get
concerned/annoyed/frustrated about how the ‘Authentication:’ popup
menu always flips back to “Root” when you set it to
“Administrator” when you flip panes or save your document? It’d
be nice to ship software with a vers of PackageMaker that doesn’t have
this issue...
Andy
P.S. Yes, I’ve filed this as a bug, but as always, it’s
marked as a duplicate.
On 5/12/06 10:03 AM, "Christopher Ryan" <email@hidden>
wrote:
The rule of thumb should be, If you
don't need an installer, don't use one. If you do, by all means, use the
Apple Installer.
Everyone wants a drag and drop experience and for Applications which are a
single bundle or folder, this is what the users should get (by distributing as
a disk image).
For times where you need to install frameworks or other files in the system, it
is much better to use an installer then to expect the customers to drag the
components to the right places.
Additionally, an installer can display important information (read me, license,
etc), that your customers may need to read before launching your app (assuming
you can't display these on the first launch).
Almost all of Apple's applications use Installers (iLife, Pro Apps, Mac OS X,
iWork) and I think it is something our customers come to expect.
Chris
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
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