Re: Hi, All,
Re: Hi, All,
- Subject: Re: Hi, All,
- From: "Joshua Levitsky" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 16:50:37 -0400
Sure would be nice to do it like InstallShield on Windows does. You can have
default values that are picked in the case of a silent install and use a
script to populate the values too. If the install is not run silently then
it would have forms to get the information. Then you can do silent or
prompted installs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Bierman" <email@hidden>
To: "Dave Johnson" <email@hidden>
Cc: <email@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: Hi, All,
Why can't the client app/tool ask the user the first time it's run?
Adding user interaction during the install process makes it very difficult
to use that installer in any kind of automated situation, such as
university labs, ARD Managed environments, clusters, etc...
(See also: QuickTime registration panel during Software Update.)
For that reason we highly discourage people from launching interactive
apps or tools from the pre/post scripts.
-pmb
At 1:29 PM -0400 5/25/05, Dave Johnson wrote:
Hi, All,
Is running a separate application from e.g. preflight the only way to get
user input during the install process?
This seems like a common need that Installer could handle, but I've not
found any other way.
This post:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2005/Feb/msg00002.html
seems to imply that launching an app is the only way.
My application is the client for a client-server application, and I need
to tell it which server to connect to.
I worked out an obscure way to do this using a Terminal window and shell
script, from preflight, but it looks like Tiger breaks what I am doing.
A cocoa app to ask the question would look better anyway, but it just
seems like overkill to have an entire application that ships in my install
just to ask one little question and to get the result into a file (or an
environment variable would probably do) so that postflight has it
available for configuring the client app.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice/suggestions!
== dj
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