[Developers] Install as Package vs. Drag-and-Drop

[Eric Warnke]

Sounds good..... ( sent from the beach ).

See everyone in a few weeks with a new release!

Cheers,
Eric

On 8/25/07, Bart Matthaei <bart at ambrero.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I agree, the next release (0.9 ?) should be a drag and drop installation
> again, with a nice self-installing function for the suid helper.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bart from Kuala Lumpur international airport, waiting on a transfer flight :(
>
> > I don't see why not.  The installer package should also be unnecessary
> > since, I believe, any proper way of handling suid helper applications
> > will be self-installing on demand to a proper directory ( like
> > /Library/Application Support ) rather than installed via pkg.
> >
> > Assuming Bart agrees, I would say moving forward just release it as a
> > drag and drop as well.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Eric
> >
> > On 8/25/07, Daniel M. Zimmerman <dmz+lists at tffenterprises.com> wrote:
> >> Given the recent security changes (requiring people to manually suid
> >> their
> >> binaries if they want low ports, and later coming up with a safe
> >> solution
> >> to allow same), it seems to me that any compelling reason that might
> >> have
> >> existed for distributing SSHKeychain as an Installer package rather than
> >> a
> >> drag and drop install is gone. Can we go back to the drag and drop
> >> install
> >> for the next version, so I don't have to jump through hoops to install
> >> it
> >> into a directory that's not on my boot partition (one of which is to
> >> remove
> >> the resulting spurious /Library/Receipts folder)?
> >>
> >> -Dan
> >>
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