Re: requirements
Re: requirements
- Subject: Re: requirements
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 19:18:18 +0200
samedi 7 mai 2005, à 06:26 PM, Chuck Soper a écrit :
I'm afraid that having the requirement may prevent other users from
installing and buying my software. Perhaps, I should remove the
requirements dictionary from my installer entirely. Is it hurting more
than helping? What do you think?
IMHO, I think it's super useless for the following reason: it won't
prevent users on 10.1 and 10.2 from installing your package since
Requirements are available for 10.3 and later.
If you want to restrict installation to 10.4 and later, you can:
- use a VolumeCheck script: you can find a lot of these things in
Apple's packages. That's what I'm using for a package since Mac OS X
10.1.1 and it has yet to fail me.
- create a distribution script package. This way, it might not even be
possible to start installing it on OS prior to 10.3.
I really wish that the PackageMaker application had a simple interface
to specify at least the minimum OS version and that it worked > reliably.
There's something like this I think for Distribution Scripts but I
don't remember if it's for the destination volume or the running OS.
The installer should be a developer's friend. It took a while to
figure out how to add this requirements dictionary and the only thing
it seems to have accomplished is to prevent potential customers from
installing my demo software.
Well, you know, with every installation solution, the motto is: "Build
once, test everywhere".
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