<OSX Uninstallers the Easy Way ⁄ >

Back in the old days at LimeWire one of the many tasks I took on was building the installers for all platforms, and I've carried on my installer hacking with LittleShoot. While installers are anything but glamorous, I'm oddly obsessed with them I think because they're your users' first introduction to your program. They need to be simple, and they need to work.

One of Mac's quirks has always been a lack of uninstallers, leading to widespread global frustration, decreased productivity, and some say a leading cause of the recent financial crisis (a small minority).

Salvation is at hand. LittleShoot's uninstaller is ridiculously simple. It's a little snippet of AppleScript that just runs a bash file loaded into it's application bundle using "do shell script" to run an external script file. Within this framework, your entire uninstaller is basically a bash script. Here are the steps to get this working:



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