Is there any way to get hold of individual installers for your plugins - I’m running a 2012 Mac and I am loathe to bloat it with install managers and ‘helpers’ and whatnot tying up resources and (head)space ?
Either that or if there’s a 100% bulletproof uninstall method for everything associated with the installation manager then I might give it a go
I tried running the app in the dmg and created a bundled installer from which there’s nothing I can pick out - I hate these things, folk object to these for a reason, it’s a reason to avoid certain stuff (cough IK cough) - it’s annoying enough that Arturia and NI went that way - it’s one thing to make it convenient for vendors or for there to be efficiencies from the perspective of licence management etc (I’m somewhat against the grain in being fine with iLok) but when every man and his dog is doing their own thing it offsets the headaches to the end user
There are other companies working this way and thankfully there’s often access to individual installers (yay izotope) - I clearly had access to a BYOME installer at one time because if it was clear at the time you would need to load apps and helpers on a system I’d have passed
As far as I can tell there’s no need for the installation manager or helpers to validate the plugins, so this is more a convenience for a vendor and I’d suggest an inconvenience for (some) users
Is there any conduit through UA/PA to get the plugins or at least a comprehensive uninstaller (app/method) for the ‘bloat’ part ?
I understand that keeping everyone happy isn’t possible and that this approach represents an efficiency at your end, but including an uninstaller wouldn’t be that difficult surely because as you’ll witness from internet chatter it’s a fair request, especially for folk running (or trying to) lean ageing machines
quite why the generated bundle isn’t more like a Mac package that you can peak inside is probably not for you to say, but that too could have offered a compromise of sorts
this is partly what makes computers a killjoy - I just fancied some fun with the sleep buffer in SandmanPro and here we are
I don’t have high hopes for a solution here, these things obviously change for a reason too - but if there’s any way to get a reliable path (instruction/script/app/whatever) to complete ‘bloat’ removal then it’ll be appreciated - I’d suggest that this is documented alongside the ‘installer’ in future as a courtesy - and yes I realise you’re not representing PA here, so if there’s a link to SP available I missed that will be fine too as I guess it won’t be developed much and I’m sticking on my current os, Mojave, anyway
/rant
