Existing users, 
Palm Desktop
for some Treo, Tungsten, Zire models
Version: 4.2.1revD
postflight script
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: sjk Friday, September 23 2005 @ 06:24 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
To claim they "devised a more elegant fix" is ridiculous since the only change was simply deleting and modifying a couple lines in the postflight script. It still overzealously changes file and group permissions on everything under /Application Support/Palm Desktop, including conduits it has no business touching. And it still does dumb things like write temporary files in your home directory instead of /tmp and leaves a loc.txt behind. It's begging for a rewrite, which I'd do myself if I ever need to run the installer again. Really, my only reason for installing Palm Desktop was for the Note Pad app and conduit, which in hindsight would have been better to extract and install separately. I already use Missing Sync for syncing.
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palm installer still poorly written - poolmouse
palmone needs to hire a competent apple osx saavy tech who can create a proper package installer. heck, pay someone with a new palm. i'm sure there are dozens of sysadmins out there that'll do it for a new palm.bottom line...if you write a proper installer, it puts what it needs to put where it needs to put it without "touching" stuff it shouldn't touch. it's common sense...but then if a company is only interested in it's immediate financial bottom line, it doesn't care about doing things right.
don
Friday, September 23 2005 @ 07:47 PM PDT
future of PalmOS? - sjk
Thanks for the reply, don. FYI, palmOne is Palm, Inc. And Palm Inc. licenses PalmOS and Palm Desktop from PalmSource (recently acquired by ACCESS Co., Ltd.).At the risk of overspeculating, seeing this:
Palm, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Verizon Wireless Announce Press Conference for Sept. 26
... casts serious doubt about Palm's commitment to using PalmOS in future products. And even though PalmSource owns Palm Desktop it could be deprecating into "irrelevancy" even sooner and faster than it already has over the past few years. Right now I'd say Mark/Space is the major player in whatever future there may be for supporting Mac users running PalmOS PDAs. Neither Palm, Inc. or PalmSource (ACCESS) have shown any interest in a long time.
Saturday, September 24 2005 @ 03:15 PM PDT
palm installer still poorly written - poolmouse
palmone needs to hire a competent apple osx saavy tech who can create a proper package installer. heck, pay someone with a new palm. i'm sure there are dozens of sysadmins out there that'll do it for a new palm.bottom line...if you write a proper installer, it puts what it needs to put where it needs to put it without "touching" stuff it shouldn't touch. it's common sense...but then if a company is only interested in it's immediate financial bottom line, it doesn't care about doing things right.
don
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Friday, September 23 2005 @ 07:45 PM PDT