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Make Synecdoche self-contained on OS X #56

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Ideally, Synecdoche will just come as a packaged application with
everything contained internally, and it will unpack components as needed on
first startup or update. Issue 55 has already been filed for an uninstaller
on OS X, but a packaged application will probably work better.

Two things the package will need to extract:
 * The screensaver, probably ask the user prior to extracting if they want it.
 * The project list which is currently being dropped in by the installer.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by michaels...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2009 at 11:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I don't quite understand how this relates to the current OS X installer. What 
is the 
difference? Can you give a few basic links for non-Mac people?

Original comment by didacty...@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2009 at 2:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Basically, installers are the exception rather than the norm in OS X territory, 
and
even frowned upon by some people. Most applications will gather everything into 
an
application bundle, which is just copied/moved into the Application folder, and 
then
run. It extracts or creates other files in the filesystem as needed.

Original comment by michaels...@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2009 at 4:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Maybe we should have both.

- An installer that sets up synecd to start on boot as a daemon, maybe under 
its own
account (sandboxing), and which you can control with the manager in 
/Applications.
Maybe add a graphical way to choose what users are allowed to control the 
client.
Installs screensaver system-wide. Maybe even sets up client logs to be readable 
by
Console.app!

- A self-contained application that can be just dragged to /Applications. Single
app, launches manager which launches client (like now). Client never running if
user-visible app isn't running. No screensaver (or to be installed by manually
dragging into the right place too). Ability to be installed and used by 
non-admin
users, putting it in ~/Applications or anywhere else.

Maybe some Windows users would like such a "portable app" too :) (although 
carrying
it in a USB drive and crunching on different hardware from the same data 
directory
is usually a very bad idea)

Original comment by nicolas....@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2009 at 7:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The Windows installer has a separate issue 65, since installers are such 
platform-
specific animals.

Original comment by didacty...@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2009 at 7:38