Hi Jonathan, *, On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051...@gmail.com> wrote: > im happy with the way things are done on mac, but the folder that has the > licenses i didnt even bother looking at that folder hence the suggestion for > a mac package that would install LO in the app folder.
I agree with Thorsten - the way it is now is a feature - and also what apple recommends regarding how to distribute your software. Unless you need to check for existance of other stuff or rely on stuf being installed to specific paths, then don't use an installer, but the drag'n'drop installation method. Switching to an installer will have many, many drawbacks, as even packaging it would require a privileged user account (i.e. you would have to build as root) and similar "nice" sideeffects. Not to mention the loss of flexibility/the added complexity for the user. With the drag'n'drop installer, the user is free to install test versions side-by-side, without affecting another version (apart from the user-config directory), can simply remove it or update it (i.e. replace the old version) While you could force the user to accept a licence with the installer-method, I'd not want to switch to an installer package just because of this. If you want to force users to read/accept the licence, then change the firststart-wizard accordingly. But I don't see the need for this either. For a regular user is its almost impossible to not comply with the licence anyway :-) And those who want to do hacky stuff with it will look for the licence in any case. ciao Christian _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
