Re: Cross platform installer
Re: Cross platform installer
- Subject: Re: Cross platform installer
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:43:11 +0200
On mercredi, juin 20, 2007, at 06:55 PM, Steve Israelson wrote:
I am trying to determine if PackageMaker can create a package that can
install my application and also its data files where the data files
are not in the package but are on the install disk in an external
directory. I want to do this so that the Windows installer can also
access these data files.
The install is very simple, just the App, data files, and one defaults
tweak to point at the data files.
I saw a couple of threads on this subject and there was no good
solution other that to write your own shell script to copy the files.
My deployment target is 10.3.9 or later.
Has there been any other solutions found to this issue?
Maybe a solution could be to:
Use a Metapackage containing 2 packages:
Package A: it contains your application. Standard package, no magic
involved.
Package B: it contains no .pax. It used the undocumented
"IFPkgFlagAltSourceLocation" flag.
As I've never used the "IFPkgFlagAltSourceLocation", I can't confirm
that it will work.
If not, then I may resort to writing my own installer since I will be
in full control of the install process then. Are there any gotchas
with making your own installer?
By gotchas, do you mean something like:
- bugs
- security flaws
- files being deleted
- not being able to blame someone else for the first 3 items on this
list.
?
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