Question

I have a requirement to create a cross platform application that launches a web link to a feedback form when its uninstalled.

This is obviously normal sort of behaviour on windows…, but on a Mac is is proving to be more complicated as applications are not technically installed and uninstalled in a windows sense, aka you just copy the .app file into Applications and delete it when you’re finished.

How can I achieve this website launching requirement? (Should I even be trying, is this process too alien to Mac users?)

I tired packing the application with an uninstall shell script that deletes the app and lunches the site, but obviously the script can’t delete itself.

Answer 1

I don’t think this is the best idea, since the process would be a bit unusual to OS X users. As you noted, most applications are installed simply by dragging a .app file to /Applications (or some other location). Some apps do have an installer, but even apps with an installer only occasionally have an uninstaller; and furthermore, as a Mac user, I’d be immediately suspicious of an app that installed itself and some sort of unknown shell script.