VISE X for Mac

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• I despise this application

  ZadianJuly 4, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Here's a suggestion: it could ASK THE USER FOR PERMISSION before KILLING ALL HIS APPLICATIONS. And how about having the uninstaller actually uninstall all the crap the installer put in there? The installer generator should make it harder for developers to make user-hostile installers. Developers! Please, please build your installer the OSX way. Download Adium, see how they did it. Your users will thank you. If your lawyers tell you you need a clickwrap license, you can add that to the dmg file, or have it shown the first time the application is started.

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• The happiest day of my life ...

  Damien SorressoMay 31, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />... was when we convinced my university to let us drop VISE for our Mac software package. In truth, VISE has a lot of really great features, and it can create very flexible installers, but even those cannot save it from the absolutely puke-inducing interface for the installer creator and the bugs that riddled the software when I used it. The VISE installer creator is a prime example of what happens when developers do a lazy Carbon port. It simply has way too many roots in Classic, and that results in a lot of confusing installation rules. You actually have to COPY AND PASTE a Unix shell script into a tiny little window to add that capability, for Christ's sake. You can't just select a text file. Whenever a developer uses a VISE installer, that's automatically a strike against his product, in my opinion. If you've designed your product so poorly that you need to use VISE instead of Installer.app or drag-n-drop to get it installed properly, that's a sign of an application which will give you problems down the road.

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• Developers please stay away!

  PeterNSteinmetzMay 31, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />As a user, I have also found these things are nothing but trouble. Nearly every time I've used these, they either unintentionally required Classic (which I don't have installed) or mess up the permissions. One of these installers literally wasted a half day of my time. I vastly prefer the standard packaging mechanism and would urge developers to use that.

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• No, please

  PEckelMay 31, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I really, really hate these installers. So far, I had nothing but trouble with them, so I'd prefer this software to vanish as fast as possible. What's the advantage of Vise over the standard OS X installer? As an end user, I don't see any, maybe there are some for a developer?

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