Uninstaller for Mac OSX Application

[Tom Harrington]

> On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:53 PM, JanakiRam <johnyatforums at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >      I'm new to installer / uninstaller stuff in Mac OS X. I'm doing a port
> > of Windows application to Mac.My Application has kext , mac
> > application and some files in /opt folder.

Please be careful about putting things in /opt/.  Anyone who uses
MacPorts is likely to have a lot there already, so make sure you're
not clobbering existing software.

> >     I've googled for it , many blogs say that there is no Uninstaller in
> > Mac till now. Is it True ?

That's true.  You can either roll your own or look at third party
solutions like FileStorm, which can create both installers and
uninstallers.

On 10/5/07, Marcus S. Zarra <mzarra at zarrastudios.com> wrote:
> Unless you are installing something at the system level, you should
> not be using an installer at all.

Installing kexts is probably one of the cases where it's justified,
being as they have specific needs regarding where they're installed
and how they're loaded.


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Tom Harrington
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