How do we create a plugin setup file for Mac/Win?

Hello!
I am a relatively new plugin coder! I have successfully developed a few small plugins. Now, the general course of going about a setup of a plugin is to copy & paste it in the Plugins folder of Adobe Photoshop. Is there an alternate method? Like, a setup, that installs the plugin at the appropriate location! I searched the internet but couldn't find anything of much use.
Help needed...!!!
Thanks!

On Windows, you can have your setup program check the registry for plugins folder path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Adobe/Photoshop/
It would follow by the version number, within that version would be a string value key called "PluginPath", this would hold the full path to plugins folder, this is where you want the installer/setup to copy your plugins to.
eg. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Adobe/Photoshop/12.0/ the key PluginPath = "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\"
Keep in mind that on 64 bit OS, the registry key will tell you about 64 bit location, not the 32 bit location. If your plugin comes with both 32 bit and 64 bit, you need to do some checking to make sure that it knows which path is which. eg. if you see 64 bits in the path, the other one should be C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Plug-ins\ -- provided that the user choose to install 32 bit. Also keep in mind that users can have multiple versions of Photoshop.
There really isn't an easy way on the Mac other than having the installer test to see if /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Plug-ins/ (and test for other versions)
OR... you can always ask the user where the plug-ins folder is.

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