Installerless installation on OSX?

[Dan Shafer]

Just FWIW (and an opportunity to be a bit iconoclastic), I have several
users of one product I make for a client who just don't grasp the concept of
a .DMG file. They get confused. They don't know what to do with it. They
double-click it and then they think they've done something wrong.

Mounting virtiual disk drives is apparently a concept that is beyond at
least some portion of the population. Thus Graham's original idea of just
providing the app and a couple of folders, unstuffed, naked to the world, no
.dmg wrapper, makes sense sometimes I think.

And I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend Sweat Technologies' superb Rev-baked
InstallGadget:

http://www.sweattechnologies.com/InstallGadget/


On 4/13/06, Peter T. Evensen <pevensen at siboneylg.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> http://www.PetersRoadToHealth.com
> 314-629-5248 or 888-628-4588
>
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