[Macpartners] Writing Macintosh Installers

[Duncan S Kincaid]

there is also apple's own free 'PackageMaker' (part of XCode Tools)  
which is much improved over previous versions.
dk

On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Patrick McNeal wrote:

>
> On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Rocklyn E. Clarke wrote:
>
>> Is there a current standard MacOS installer application recommended
>> for use at MIT?
>> Is there a clear winner in the marketplace of MacOS installer apps?
>
> IS&T doesn't publish an installer standard per se, but does strive to
> follow Apple's installation guidelines.  Namely, using application
> bundles for simple applications that can be installed via drag-and-
> drop, and packages for applications with more complex requirements.
> Using these models also has the benefit of being supported by many
> remote management solutions such as Apple Remote Desktop and Casper.
>
> For more information, I encourage you to checkout this Apple
> documentation:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/tools/installerpolicy.html
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/SoftwareDistribution
>
> If you end up deciding to use a package based installer, these are two
> popular package creation tools:
>
> Iceberg
> http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Iceberg.html
> "An Integrated Packaging Environment (IPE) that allows you to create
> packages or metapackages conforming to the Mac OS X specifications."
>
> Composer
> http://www.jamfsoftware.com/products/composer.php
> A free part of the Casper Suite that allows for the creation of Apple
> Packages
>
> --Patrick
>
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