[Schollnick, Benjamin wrote] > Folks, > > I'm considering porting a windows python package over to the > Macintosh.... > > But one problem comes up.... > > Is there any way to gather a list of applications that have been > installed on > the Macintosh.... > > With the windows registry, we just look at the uninstall tree.... > It's not perfect, but that get's 95+% of the packages.... > > I can't think of any way to do this on the mac... Except.... > > 1) Os.path.Walk & check for .APP bundles.... > > Anyone have a better suggestion? This would have to address all the > connected > hard drives....
Anything installed using Apple .pkg/.mpkg bundles will leave a receipt in /Library/Receipts. (Maybe ~/Library/Receipts too? I don't know.) However, most GUI apps won't install this way though. They will just have been dragged from a disk image or something to whereever the user wanted to install it. Typically this is somewhere under /Applications, but could also be anywhere else. Trent -- Trent Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
