[kismac] Re: FreeMacWare mentions us!
- From: Thomas Kollbach <toto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:21:06 +0100
MacOS X knows two types of installers by default.
Drag-n-Drop is for simple, self contained Apps
pkg-based is for more complex apps (what e.g. Adobe should be using
if they had any feel for OS X apps - wich they don't)
In my opinion it is a very bad habit for drag-and-drop apps, to
install anything in the file system outside of the usual per-app/per-
user palces (/Library/Application Support/, ~/Library/Application
Support/, etc.). Under no circumstances should a simple drag-n-drop
app alter the /System folder contents in any way (that in itself is a
quite hackish behaviour, but is necessary here).
Because of that I think a pkg is appropriate.
toto
Am 07.02.2006 um 16:33 schrieb Brian:
On Feb 7, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Erick van Rijk emvr-at-etv.cx |KisMAC
list/personal| wrote:
If you do a check I prefer to have the drivers included in the
software bundle, you can always copy items out of the bundle into
the extensions folder if you have use sudo.
Separate installers always end up missing. I rather have Kismac
upon runtime check and ask permission to install drivers if needed.
With special emphasis on "ask permission" -- that's an important
point. :)
Count me in favor of the simple .dmg, drag-n-drop installation
option, too. Installers are quite overused/abused these days. Very
few apps actually require one, and they're not "the OS X way".
- Brian
Other related posts:
