On Jun 13, 2016, at 9:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> 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
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