Thought folks here would appreciate this. I posted a comment on Adobe's
Installer blog and received this response:
William Smith writes: I'd like to hear something from Adobe about plans for
Acrobat and their installer. On the Mac side, Acrobat seems to be a stepchild
of Adobe's installer technology and I don't understand why.
The Acrobat installers are actually completely separate from the suite
installers. Its more of an organizational issue than anything else. The
Acrobat installer and the Reader installer are completely different technology
and a completely different team.
That said, the Acrobat installer for the next major Acrobat release plans to
be completely PKG for the Mac. In addition, the self-healing functionality
should be gone (that is the technology that tries to do further setup after
first launch.) They planned to get rid of self-healing in Acrobat 9 but
couldn't quite get to it. For the next version it is already removed so really
should ship without self-healing.
<http://blogs.adobe.com/OOBE/2009/03/experience_design_perspective.html>
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bill
William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
St. Paul, MN
(651) 632-1492
