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Your production and deployment environment will be different, please test thoroughly before rolling it out to your production. Your production and deployment environment will be different, please test thoroughly before rolling it out to your production.
I have put a lot of work into making it stable and safe, but I cannot - of course - make _any_ promises that it won't break in some not yet encountered edge case. We have put a lot of work into making it stable and safe, but we cannot - of course - make _any_ promises that it won't break in some not yet encountered edge case.
## Authors
Intallomator was original inspired by the download scripts from William Smith and Sander Schram, and created by:
Armin Briegel - @scriptingosx
Later on a few more contributers came on the project:
Isaac Ordonez - @issacatmann
Søren Theilgaard - @Theile
Adam Codega - @acodega
And with numerous contributions from many others.
## Support and Contributing ## Support and Contributing
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## More reading ## More reading
There are a few interesting post on Installomator on my weblog: There are a few interesting post on Installomator on Armin’s weblog:
- [Introducing Installomator](https://scriptingosx.com/2020/05/introducing-installomator/) - [Introducing Installomator](https://scriptingosx.com/2020/05/introducing-installomator/)
- [Using Installomator with Jamf Pro](https://scriptingosx.com/2020/06/using-installomator-with-jamf-pro/) by Mischa van der Bent - [Using Installomator with Jamf Pro](https://scriptingosx.com/2020/06/using-installomator-with-jamf-pro/) by Mischa van der Bent
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## Goals ## Goals
My goals for Installomator are: The goals for Installomator are:
- work with various common archive types - work with various common archive types
- verify the downloaded archive or application - verify the downloaded archive or application
- have a simple 'interface' to the admin - have a simple ‘interface’ to the admin
- single script file so it can 'easily' be copied into a management system - single script file so it can ‘easily’ be copied into a management system
- extensible without deep scripting knowledge - extensible without deep scripting knowledge
- work independently of a specific management system - work independently of a specific management system
- no dependencies that may be removed from macOS in the future or are not pre-installed - no dependencies that may be removed from macOS in the future or are not pre-installed
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Applications in dmgs or zips will be copied to `/Applications` and their owner will be set to the current user, so the install works like a standard drag'n drop installation. Applications in dmgs or zips will be copied to `/Applications` and their owner will be set to the current user, so the install works like a standard drag'n drop installation.
(I consider it a disgrace, that Jamf, after nearly 20 years, _still_ cannot deal with 'drag'n drop installation dmgs' natively. It's not _that_ hard.) (I consider it a disgrace, that Jamf, after nearly 20 years, _still_ cannot deal with ‘drag’n drop installation dmgs’ natively. It's not _that_ hard.)
### Verify the download ### Verify the download