Installers

Hamish Allan hamish.allan at gold.ac.uk
Thu Sep 13 12:48:12 PDT 2007


On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:43:29 +0100, Alastair Houghton  
<alastair at alastairs-place.net> wrote:

> As for the question you asked, it's worth noting that Apple
> specifically discourages the use of installer programs, and also that
> if you really have to use an installer [which is rarely the case],
> there is a built-in Apple installer, which is what all of Apple's
> software and a lot of other third-party software uses.  The benefit
> of using Apple's installer is that it integrates nicely with Remote
> Desktop, and it can be used from the command line [for instance where
> remote installation is desirable].

There is also an Apple installer-dev mailing list:

http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/installer-dev

Best wishes,
Hamish



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