Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
- Subject: Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
- From: Greg Neagle <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:48:25 -0700
> On Jun 13, 2016, at 9:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 06/13/2016 06:34 PM, Greg Neagle wrote:
>> Please no. I don't need software vendors "reinventing" the process of installing thing on OS X.
>>
>> Distribute your software as Apple installer pkgs.
>
> That's exactly what I want to do. I just want to initiate the installation process
> programmatically, that's all, the same way it works on Windows.
>
> There is no new package format and there is no custom installer software, I just want
> to be able to tell OSX "Please take this .pkg and install for me, ask the user for
> permission, of course."
`/usr/bin/open /path/to/your/app.pkg` or the equivalent NSWorkspace methods. This will open Installer.app, ready to install your package.
>
> This mechanism works perfectly fine on Windows and there is a well-supported and
> stable API for that. On OSX, the API is hidden and convoluted.
>
> I basically want to imitate what Adobe is doing with their apps manager [1].
Please don't.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
>> [1] http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/desktop-app.html
>
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