Hi,
So yes, as people mentioned you shouldn't move an application while it
is running, so the solution is obviously to move it when it is not
running. You will need a little tool that you launch with NSTask that
does the move for you. As you noted, Sparkle does everything you want,
except it will only put the new application in the same place as the
old one.
Luckily, Sparkle is open source and under a flexible license, so you
might just want to look at that. I think it should be pretty easy to
modify so that it moves the same binary to a different place.
If you want to be really safe, you might want to move your tool out of
the bundle and into your application support folder and run it from
there.
The code is here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~andymatuschak/sparkle/main/files
You should focus on SUInstaller (runs the tool) and relaunch.m (the
code for the tool).
(If you want another opinion, I don't think what you are doing is a
bad idea. John Gruber made a point in a recent article (http://daringfireball.net/2009/02/untitled_document_syndrome
) that most users don't want to mess with the file system at all
anymore. For example, you don't have to worry about where iPhoto is
putting your photos, and the iPhone has no GUI file system access at
all. Also as Gruber notes, the vast majority of people who don't like
these features and want complete control of the file system are
programmers, i.e., the people on this list.)
Adam Leonard
On Feb 22, 2009, at 10:49PM, Ben Lachman wrote:
Perhaps the issue is that you are assuming an offer to do something
is subtle way of telling you where to put your stuff. In reality it
isn't. It's purely offering a short cut/automation if you'd like
it. Say no, and it would never ask you again. But anyway, this is
getting quite off topic, and I'd prefer to stay on topic.
The original question stands, does anyone have code that would be
helpful in implementing such a feature?
If you'd like to continue discussing the validity of such a feature
you are more than welcome to contact me off list.
Thanks,
->Ben
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On Feb 21, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Andreas Mayer wrote:
Am 21.02.2009 um 17:33 Uhr schrieb Alex Kac:
If an app offered to help - just once - I don't see that as an
intrusion, but a more Mac-like feature. Its not intrusive.
I disagree. It's not an applications job to tell me where to put it.
If, for some reason, it *must* be put in /Applications, use an
installer package.
Andreas
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