Re: Can I dynamically create the list of items available to install based on environment capabilities and conditions?
Re: Can I dynamically create the list of items available to install based on environment capabilities and conditions?
- Subject: Re: Can I dynamically create the list of items available to install based on environment capabilities and conditions?
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:41:42 +0200
I can only provide the local URL:
/Developer/ADC Reference Library/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/
Installer.html
According to the release notes, you can force the customization pane to
be always visible and you can make a choice in the list invisible (or
disabled).
On mardi, juin 5, 2007, at 05:47 PM, Jonathon Hardy wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion Stéphane. This is exactly
what I want to do - but, I don't know how to access
the customization pane. I don't see any info on that
in the docs on Apple's web site. Any suggestions on
how to get access to the PackageSelection
InstallerSection or the customPane InstallerPane or
the CustomInstallerPage InstallerPane (I think that's
what they're called ;-) ?
Thanks,
Jon
--- Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden> wrote:
On mardi, juin 5, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Jonathon Hardy
wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the fast response.
I think that's OK for our 3D libraries because
they're
all encrypted and won't be installed unless the
licensing exists on the target system. You can
set-up
ARD to also install the licensing - if not it will
skip the libraries. All of our other products can
be
installed with ARD and I've tested that and it
works -
they either don't run without the licensing or
they
run in evaluation mode if the licensing isn't
there.
The part that I can't figure out is how to update
the
install display. For example, let's say that a
user
bought a tool that works with Final Cut Pro or
Adobe
Premier. We sell those individually at different
prices - but the actual product install packages
are
both on the CD. If a customer puts in a serial
number
for the Final Cut Pro version - we only want to
show
the Final Cut Pro tools and not the Adobe Premier
tools. If a user puts in a serial number for the
Final Cut Pro tools and 3D libraries, we want to
show
those in the list. There are several different
combinations that can be purchased - and we're
trying
to only show what the customer bought instead of
showing every package that's on the CD.
Are you using a distribution script?
I'm a newbie when it comes to distribution script
but from what I can
see in the doc.. (hmm the release notes), it
supports property list
reading.
So maybe the idea could be to write the user's
answer to a property
list in a location readable by everyone (/tmp ?) and
then, in the
customization pane (which you probably want to be
displayed by
default), add some tests based on the values in this
property list.
My $0.02
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