site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcX20NNiEb/oDGLEEdqqawAKlaBZUA== Thread-topic: Admin vs Root Authorization User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004 On 12/1/05 5:07 PM, "Tobias Peciva" <peciva@pharos.co.nz> wrote:

On 2/12/2005, at 9:32 AM, Andy O'Meara wrote:

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I realize that ideally, it's nice to have the user drag over an app from the img to wherever they like, but in situations where you have a suite of apps, this doesn't work as well. Our situation is that we need to copy a folder to the user's Application Support folder

I think the official party line is that in cases like this, you should place the support files inside your application's bundle and copy them to the required location the first time the application is run (if they are not already there).

Thanks, but let me clarify a bit, since you're making some (false) presumptions. Our software is an engine/bundle that's used by our (proprietary) apps and iTunes plugins. This engine and its support files are installed to the user's App Support folder, allowing our iTunes plugin and apps to find and load it. The basis for sharing this engine (and not putting a separate copy in each app bundle) is that the engine bundle and support files are too numerous to embed, not to mention other significant reasons).

And if the user accidentally deletes the support files, or drags the application to another machine on the network and launches it there, it will still work, because your app will again copy the support files to the appropriate location.

N/a, based on the above; we can't dist the engine inside each app that uses it (a critical feature is that you can select from the different engines available--we have a couple and more are on the way)

Of course, Application Support is only writable by admins, so you do need to take that into account.

Not the user's--that's where our pkg currently installs to--you may want to review my previous post. You can drop by soundspectrum.com and download the software if you'd like to check it out--it may look familiar. Andy _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com