Re: jpackage on MacOs: app from pkg cannot write files and create directories inside itself

2019-09-09 Thread Scott Palmer
You should never write inside an application bundle. (Thank the malware writers for these restrictions.) On macOS your writable files should go somewhere under /Library/Application Support/ or ~/Library/Application Support/ On Windows you should write to somewhere under %ProgramData%, %APPDAT

Re: jpackage on MacOs: app from pkg cannot write files and create directories inside itself

2019-09-06 Thread Alexander Matveev
Hi Andrey, Writing to  /Application on macOS or "Program Files" on Windows requires admin privileges. It is very uncommon when application stores temp files or setting files modifiable by user inside installation folder. For temp files I will recommend to use system provided temp folder. For s

jpackage on MacOs: app from pkg cannot write files and create directories inside itself

2019-09-06 Thread Andrey Volkov
Hello. I use jpackage (Build 14-jpackage+1-35) to bundle my Swing-based app for MacOS. Whereas DMG format works pretty well, PGK bundle has a serious issue. When I install the app from PKG, it cannot write files or create directories inside itself. I have /resource directory for my app that has a