Chris M. wrote in post #1018217: > For most application's that's true, but a couple of Apple products on > the Mac App Store (e.g. Xcode, OS X Lion) only give you an installer, > which you have to run manually. These products need to write files > outside of /Applications, and the Mac App Store can't do that by itself.
You mean the Mac App Store WON'T install outside of /Applications. This is by design. Besides, how is this drastically different than installing Xcode before it was on the Mac App Store? You would download the Xcode installer and then run the installer. The Xcode installer includes multiple applications. There's Xcode, Instruments and an array of other utility apps. If Xcode where to be installed like any other Mac App Store app then each individual app would have to be installed separately, which would be a PITA. I somewhat understand the concern about needing to keep the installer package hanging around on the drive. However, I don't see another way to provide delta updates for a tool suite like Xcode. Any system capable of running the latest version of Xcode most likely has a fairly substantial amount of disk space anyway. It'll get to a point where we won't even think about a 3 or 4 GB file. It'll just be another one of the already millions of files on our drives we don't think twice about. On Mac OS X there has always been two basic types of application installations. Some apps don't need an installer package, some do. The difference with the Mac App Store is that in order for third-parties to be able to sell through the Mac App Store the app must support the "drag-and-drop" style application install. This is safer, and easier to control. Third parties building apps that require installer packages will have to resort to traditional methods of distribution. In some cases (e.g. iWork) the requirement for an installer package can be eliminated by separating the suite into individual applications. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
