Optional installation location?
Optional installation location?
- Subject: Optional installation location?
- From: Jack Repenning <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:27:49 -0700
My users want me to make my installer offer them the choice of
installing the product (which happens to be a Finder Contextual Menu
plug-in) into either the global location, /Library/Contextual Menu
Items/, or into their home directory, ~/Library/Contextual Menu
Items/. It seems to me I've seen installers with a check box for
that sort of choice, but I can't figure out how to do that in
PackageMaker. Is there a way? I'm particularly concerned about how
to drive the Installer UI in this; I can create scripting to put the
files where I want them.
I have seen the "relocatable" flag and its behavior, but it doesn't
provide any guidance to the user on where to put things. It's quite
important that this stuff go into the right spot, since Finder only
looks in these two places. If I merely offer the users a browse
button, they might put it anywhere -- and they'd be justified, since
I don't seem able to give them much guidance, since I don't know how
to add any text to the particular window where that button would be.
I suppose I could create a meta-package, one package that goes into
the global place, one into $HOME. But it would be a pain for me, and
still not a very obvious UI, hidden off in the Customize panel and all.
-==-
Jack Repenning
email@hidden
Project Owner
SCPlugin
http://scplugin.tigris.org
"Subversion for the rest of OS X"
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