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Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
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Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically


  • Subject: Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
  • From: Greg Neagle <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:02:26 -0700

> On Jun 13, 2016, at 9:50 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.

I, and most anyone who manages a large number of Macs, will disagree.

>
> Adrian
>
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