The macOS “installer” should be nothing more than a disk image with the application bundle. It should not be a .pkg file that might require admin privileges as it would be a drag and drop install. The user should be able to drag the app bundle wherever they want.
Scott > On Aug 10, 2018, at 6:54 PM, Carl Mosca <[email protected]> wrote: > > I work in a place where you need admin rights to install on Windows as well > but that's a policy. > > As far as the MacOS goes, it's based on BSD. > > Therefore if /Applications is owned by root:wheel (or something similar > that's not the current user), you need privileges to "su or sudo" in order > to complete the installation process. That is to say, the filesystem is > requiring the elevated access which in my opinion is a good thing. > > One could/should be able to install in his/her home directory and not need > such access and I have seen apps take that approach as well. > > Carl > >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 5:57 PM Will Hartung <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Kenneth Fogel <[email protected] >>> >> wrote: >> >>> Yes, an installer is nice but all it should do on the Windows platform is >>> unzip NetBeans in the folder of choice and add a shortcut. >>> >> >> For some reason that I don't understand, and perhaps someone could explain, >> the installer for MacOS requires Administration privileges. >> >> Being that it, too, is essentially a "zip file" (it's an application >> bundle), I never really understood why it needs admin privs to install. >> >> Maybe it's some Mac specific thing. >> > > > -- > Carl J. Mosca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
