Installerless installation on OSX?

[Peter T. Evensen]

A large number of .dmg files that I have downloaded lately have two icons: 
the app and a folder shortcut to the user's Applications folder, which a 
background graphic (don't ask me how they do that.. I haven't looked into 
it) directing them to drag the application to the Applications folder 
shortcut, which makes it really easy to install, rather than opening 
another window and navigating.

At 10:11 AM 4/13/2006, you 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

Peter T. Evensen
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