site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acj+M8arWhxUOXhS30S/oil+Q04VUwAAOraiAABIt7cAACUblAACUdDJ Thread-topic: postinstall scripts not executing User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.11.0.080522 I don't know about documentation, but a big argument against an installer writing prefs is that you can't know whether there is any connection between the user installing the app and the user(s) actually running it; they often are not the same. (Well, if it is an in-house application, then MAYBE you can know...) You can iterate the "/Users" folder and stash initial prefs into each "Library/Preferences" subdirectory (and maybe "/var/root/Library/Preferences" if you have some wild idea that someone may need the app while logged in as root), but that does nothing for networked users, and finding all networked user home directories can be a pain (such pain being magnified by the possibility of offline servers). A much better idea is for the application, at launch, check for the existence of preferences for the current user only, and set up some default values if none yet exist. NSUserDefaultsController makes this quite easy, but even if you don't use Cocoa preferences it's still a fairly simple matter to copy default preference values out of some file buried in the application bundle. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ Steve Stockman Software Architect Consumer Products - Macintosh Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

From: "Gignac, Jason (HAS-SAT)" <Jason.Gignac@Pearson.com> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:51:42 -0500 To: Luke Bellandi <lbelland@adobe.com>, Jeremy Matthews <jeremymatthews@mac.com> Cc: "installer-dev-request@lists.apple.com" <installer-dev@lists.apple.com> Subject: Re: postinstall scripts not executing

Is there any particular documentation on the why-and-wherefores of the discouragement against pref-writing?

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