On 24/Feb/2010, at 1:20 AM, yogin bhargava wrote: > Thanks for your responses. The application is an installer which has to > install something. And that installer should not be allowed to quit.
Hi Yogin! I agree with the others who have posted... Using a standard package and the regular installer is the way to go. Personally, I don't like custom installers since it's more difficult to check what they are installed prior to running them. However, I'm that kind of administrator... I want to know the ins and outs of what each installed package does so that I can be better prepared for when users have troubles. Also, the standard package format is very easy to integrate into the automatic install process for handling larger deployment setups. In fact, some administrators won't consider a package which doesn't use the standard package format. On the topic of cleanup, I also agree that some folks are not going to be happy with your choice as presented here and will stop your installer. You need to make sure that your installer cleans up properly! Given that the last time I checked, Force Quit from the dock was different from the Force Quit menu, which was again different from Force Quit from Activity Monitor.app. Then there are the apple script and command line options for terminating your application. And, of course, unplugging the machine as others has already said! ;-) Please let us know the name of your application so we can see your final product! Mark P.S. And I can't help but make a note that it sounds kinda suspicious that an installer would try to run without a way to stop it... Perhaps it's just my suspicious nature reading into things as I'm sure that you're not trying to install something untoward? Right? ;-) _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
