Hello! I'm looking for a way to invoke the functionality of PackageKit programmatically. The motivation for this is an independent application manager which is used to deploy a number of similar applications on a single machine. The application manager is deployed on both Windows and OSX. On Windows, there is a usable API provided by the Microsoft Installer (MSI) [1] which can be used to install Windows application packages (.msi), query their installation status and uninstall them. On OSX, there is just the UI installer (/System/Library/CoreServices/ Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer) and the command-line installer (/usr/sbin/installer) plus tools like "pkgutil" to query the database. Thus, in order to trigger installation processes from my own application, I would have to use something like NSTask plus some AppleScript code to be able to gain administrator privileges which is a rather crude hack and makes querying things like the installation status rather cumbersome. Does anyone know what the reasoning behind Apple's decision is to not make PackageKit a public Framework? I think it's rather a pity that, although OSX actually comes with a clean mechanism to install and uninstall application packages through functionality provided by the operating system, this functionality is not exposed in a public API so it can be used the same way it can be used on Windows. Thanks, Adrian
[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/Aa369426(v=vs.85).a...
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