Re:Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer ...
by comex on Thursday April 09, 2020 @02:33AM
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But why are they even using Installer.app? First, why use an installer at all; second, if they really want an installer, why not make a custom installer app and avoid the "run a script" prompt? Installer.app doesn't have special privileges. Is the script approach just easier?
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Re:Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer ...
by cosmotic on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:56PM
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The built-in installer gives developers a lot of freebies like permission escalation and gets around "hey, you're trying to run a program from the internet" prompt. That is at least until developers start bending over backwards with crazy shell scripts like the one found in the zoom installer.
Re:Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer ...
by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday April 09, 2020 @02:08PM
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The interesting thing is that if you hit Command-I and Command-L you can see exactly what the package is doing, and the most recent one just seems to be moving an app to /Applications. For this sort of thing: download a zip, open the zip from your browser's download panel and then have the app move itself to /Applications when you open the extracted app is a much nicer flow that is semi-widespread.