Re: Recommended Installer practices and locations
Re: Recommended Installer practices and locations
- Subject: Re: Recommended Installer practices and locations
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:21:21 -0800
On 2013 Jan 03, at 14:54, Stephen Kay <email@hidden> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a document that explains recommended installer practices
> and locations for current OSX software?
I'm kind of surprised that you've not been able to find such a document, and even more surprised that no one seems to know the answer. Maybe there is no such document? Maybe everyone "just knows" this?
Anyhow, here are the answers for your examples…
> For example, my app ships with a default datafile (what you could refer to as a document), and it is possible for the user to begin modifying it. It ships with other auxiliary files that the user needs to load onto USB sticks and transfer to external musical instruments. None of this stuff makes sense to go in the bundle.
In my opinion, data which the user can modify, but not in a document that the user would normally want to copy and move around, would go in to ~/Application Support.
> I used to install a folder in the applications folder, containing the app bundle and all the other stuff like the default document, pdf help files, etc.
Indeed putting a folder into /Applications is yucky.
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