Installer/Xcode stupidity

In Xcode, the way you create a package to submit to the Mac App Store is by using Build & Archive. This creates an app archive deep inside your user directory. Then you open the Organizer and Share that build to save an Installer package (pkg).

Now, if you want to install and test the app, you run the Installer package. The problem is, the installer doesn’t ask you where to save the app on the volume. It looks for other copies of the app already on the disk, and replaces that copy, which in this case is the version in the app archive. Which might have been an older version which you wanted to keep in case you wanted to go back.

Wow, that’s really stupid, Installer. Baka.