[Casper] "Acrobat 10" installer and self-healing

[Smith, William]

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