On Jun 13, 2016, at 9:50 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> 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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