Graham,
Many big-name companies distribute there Mac OS X apps this way--
MicrosoftOffice, BBEdit, and Firefox all are simple .dmg files that
you mount, then drag the app to wherever you want. Unless you need to
do some behind the scenes fiddling with System-level entrails, it
seems to me the easiest and most straighforward approach. If the end
user wants the app available to all users, they put it into the
Applications folder, provided of course that they have admin rights.
If the end user doesn't want to give global access or has no admin
rights, they could just copy it to their own ~/Applications folder in
their user home.
Devin
On Apr 13, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
I want to distribute a structurally simple RR-developed application
to Mac OSX users (it's the standalone itself and a couple of sample
folders). In testing, all I've done is to copy the app (which we
all know is really a folder) to somewhere convenient on the user's
hard disk. The user then double-clicks and that's it. Is there
anything wrong with this strategy? Why do people have installers
and .dmg files if so? I sense that one reason might be that the
machine potentially has many users, all but one of whom won't have
administrator privileges - as I'm not in this situation myself, I
don't really know.
I want the simplest possible strategy for distribution. Any advice
will be gratefully received, as ever.
Graham
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