Re: Leopard installer too smart and overwrite existing app
Re: Leopard installer too smart and overwrite existing app
- Subject: Re: Leopard installer too smart and overwrite existing app
- From: Martin Bestmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:34:53 +0100
On 12.11.2007, at 22:51, Nathan Duran wrote:
On Nov 12, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Martin Bestmann wrote:
But if you e.g. install two different versions (myDemo App 1.0 and
myDemo App 2.0) of the same app (still having the same bundle
identifier) then you do NOT want this behavior.
Take iWorks e.g. you have version 06 and version 08 and both of the
Keynote apps have the same bundle identifier.
So this "smart" behaviour of the installer is not good, at least
not as the default mode.
OK, so if we keep using iWork as an example, notice that it creates
separate folders for each full release in order to avoid this
confusion:
http://www.khiltd.com/images/iWorkInstaller.jpg
You're trying to force them into the same place, which I, as a user,
would consider more unusual than what Installer.app is doing. How
are you specifying the destination in your project/build script?
As I wrote in my post the destination location doesn't matter. If you
remove the original app from the location you want to install the app
to and the app is located somewhere else it'll install it in that
location where ti finds the app. The only time it really installs the
app as intended is when the original app doesn't exist at all.
To be honest I've not tried to install iWorks 08 over and existing
iWorks 06 installation on Leopard.
Martin
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