On Jun 5, 2009, at 9:20 PM, Patrick Gallagher wrote:
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Andrew Merenbach <email@hidden> wrote:
Thanks for your response. Looks like I didn't miss anything, then, save for some of those discussions you mention (I recall seeing some a long while ago, but ironically I had thought I'd recalled seeing someone mention more recent versions of PackageMaker being used for making uninstallers--guess I was wrong!!!).
I suppose, then, that I'll have to include a Perl script with my distributions for uninstallation, à la Apple's Developer Tools.
LANRev's Installease can make an uninstaller by looking at the contents of an existing package. It basically just compiles a list of the files and lists them in a postflight script that gets added to a payload-less package.
Interesting! Thanks for digging that up. That's the sort of system about whose existence I was wondering. From the replies that I received, however, it sounds as though such methods are not in widespread use on the Mac side. I was never a fan of the need for uninstallers on Windows, but after receiving e-mails from users asking me how to get rid of files that my programs have installed, I realize that it'd be a little less cruel to give them a double-clickable item than to make them go into Terminal and type commands, or even to run a shell script.
Cheers, Andrew
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