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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 25 06:28:33 +0000 2007 ------- 1) dmg (drag-n-drop) is fine, when all you need to do is drag the application icon to the application folder 2) pkg should be used for cases, where we are not simply operating on a application icon, but we are also doing supportive installation actions, and/or install files in multiple places Spotlight plugin will need to be installed in /Library/... to guarantee it works properly, as otherwise multiple instances of the same plugin can exist within several OOo installs. That is big NO-NO according to Apple. Additionally, for indexing to work properly, some shell commands need to be run during install. Also, IMHO end users (developers maybe not) would benefit from profile migration (or copying) during install, so that they don't have to worry about the details. There was already discussion to still allow .dmg (disk image) builds for developers with a configuration switch/environment variable. With possible future "separate applications" work, we are not dealing with a single application anymore, but several apps, which quite clearly changes the concept too. .pkg install allows us to show readme/license/any other text + errors (like "cannot install on Jaguar") etc. to the user during _install time_, not during runtime, which would make _every_ startup to go through a more complicated process. All the "big" applications/suites use .pkg, for pretty obvious reasons. This includes MS Office and iWork. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
