Re: multiple license and readme files
Re: multiple license and readme files
- Subject: Re: multiple license and readme files
- From: Dan Nigrin <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:05:15 -0500
Thanks for the suggestion Stéphane - I will explore them.
Dan
While this solution would not require changing the installers (since
the License and ReadMe are just not displayed), another solution
could be:
o Writing a small tool called by InstallationCheck that would
display the different ReadMe and License documents in a series of
pane. The issue with this is that it may be tough to make it work
when installing with ARD (no UI).
In the interim, I did find a previous post on the list covering
some of the same ground:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2006/Jan/msg00058.html
I'm interested in further exploring the bit that says "I suppose
it's also possible to chain several installers together, such that
when the user finishes one installer, the next is automatically
launched." Could anyone suggest an approach to how I could do
this, with the following constraints:
* Only one installer package visible to end user
* Run a postflight script after both pacakges installed, but which
is currently NOT part of the second package (and which is the other
software provider's, so I would like to not add anything to their
package).
This would probably require killing Installer.app in the postflight
script since chained packages installation is available only from
10.4 IIRC.
Another issue with this could be permissions. If the first package
requires Root/Admin authentication, the postflight script is run as
root so Installer.app might be run as root when launched from this
script.
Another suggestion could be to just use the installer command line
tool and build the UI around it for the license and readme documents.
--
Dan Nigrin
Defective Records
202 Hack / PC-1600 User / VSTi Host / OMS Convert / Jack OS X
http://www.defectiverecords.com
http://www.jackosx.com
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