Re: Additional info needed about "PackageMaker"
Re: Additional info needed about "PackageMaker"
- Subject: Re: Additional info needed about "PackageMaker"
- From: Dan Wood <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:23:40 -0700
A couple of thoughts, to see if there's a way to avoid PackageMaker
(which I think Apple is trying not to document so that others won't
use it) -- first, I think you want to put your extensions in
/Library/Extensions, not /System/Library/Extensions. /System is
for Apple only, and the way that domains work is that multiple
domains are supposed to be searched. See my article in the latest
MacTech.
Also, one thing that some Apple engineers suggested to me at WWDC
and also what I've heard on the list is that you could have these
pieces bundled in your application, and when it first starts up, it
copies the resources over to their destination. Presto! No
installer.
Of course, there may be some other reason why you can't do it that
way, but it makes sense to see if you can get away with a simpler
approach before going down the installer path....
Dan Wood
On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 03:54 PM, Nicolas Robin wrote:
I wish we could do just drag-and-drop, but unfortunately their
environment
is not as simple.
For example, we need to install some pieces of software, like a
driver in
the "/System/Library/Extensions" folder and an other one in the
"/Library/StartupItems" folder...
We also need to do some upgrades where some files will be updated
and some
others won't.
There are also some cases where there is a need to install some
aliases at
some specific locations of the hard disk...
I guess the question now is: Does Apple plan to have a serious and
complete
documentation of "PackageMaker" one day ? Do they want the
developers to use
that tool to make the greatest installers on OSX or do they want
to keep
this tool for themselves and let the "outside world" use other
tools like
Aladdin's InstallerMaker or Mindvision's Installer Vise ?
Nicolas.
From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:46:25 +0100
To: Nicolas Robin <email@hidden>
Cc: <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Additional info needed about "PackageMaker"
On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 09:38 pm, Nicolas Robin wrote:
The company I work for, is at a stage they would like to have an
installer
for all their recently carbonized applications.
Why exactly do they need an installer? Can't they just have
drag-and-drop, the preferred installation method on OS X?
-- Finlay
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