Joe F. wrote:
I prefer the disc image with root Applications alias. It's simple and
obvious.
I found that a lot of apps allow you to install anywhere when they
actually need to be in the Applications folder; as if the developer
never considered that a user might do it otherwise.
The main reasons to do it "by the book" are permissions and OS
updates. I haven't done Snow Leopard yet but the Leopard transition
was great for me, very little setup once it was installed.
Also, if you want to update your app you know where everything is.
Joe F.
Hi Joe,
I always build my apps to register themselves at each startup in a
"prefs" .rev stack stored in a folder named
specialFolderPath(<platformSpecificPrefsFolder>)/<MyAppName>. Then no
matter how the user organizes his apps, the app's updater can usually
find the app by getting the registered paths from the prefs stack, which
is always in the same place.
In theory this works every time. And (to quote Mark Weider) in theory,
there's no difference between theory and fact! ;-)
Phil Davis
On Sep 23, 2009, at 1:00 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:00 PM, J. Landman Gay
<[email protected]> wrote:
Sarah Reichelt wrote:
In response, someone else posted a complementary idea, having the app
offering to move itself to the Applications folder if it is launched
from any other folder.
<http://www.potionfactory.com/node/251>
I recently installed an app that did that. I didn't like it, I had
installed
it in a different folder on purpose. Fortunately it only bugged me once
about it on first launch.
Perhaps a neater method would be to offer to move it only if it was
being launched from the Downloads folder.
Sarah
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Phil Davis
PDS Labs
Professional Software Development
http://pdslabs.net
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