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I need your help in choosing a Mac OS X installer version for my application, since I’m not a native Mac user (I am a Windows user).
As far as I know there are two popular installer versions: the regular setup wizard, and the one that uses a window in which you drag the file into the applications folder. Which is preferred and why?
If your application is entirely self contained with all its resources bundled in a single
.apppackage (which is the preferred structure for Mac applications) then use drag and drop installation. If it isn’t possible to bundle your application in this way then use an installer.pkg.There may be other solutions that are appropriate for certain types of application. For example I develop a large Java application that runs on many platforms (including Mac) and we use IzPack to build one installer JAR that works on all platforms. We then package this up as an .exe for Windows users (using Launch4J) and as a .app bundle for Mac users.