Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
- Subject: Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
- From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:50:14 +0200
On 06/13/2016 06:48 PM, Greg Neagle wrote:
> `/usr/bin/open /path/to/your/app.pkg` or the equivalent NSWorkspace methods. This will open Installer.app, ready to install your package.
That's a very bad way of doing it as there is no way of catching any errors.
>> 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.
I'm sorry, but that's what's required by the customer. Adobe uses it in their extremely
popular Creative Suite, so it cannot be that particularly wrong.
Adrian
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