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Re: Installer Plugins - how to run as root?
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Re: Installer Plugins - how to run as root?

  • Subject: Re: Installer Plugins - how to run as root?
  • From: Andy Kim <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:32:16 -0700

On May 11, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Bill Coderre wrote:

There are many who believe that the installer should ask ALL of its questions BEFORE the user hits install. (cf. "About Face" by Cooper and Reimann. In the first edition, Cooper calls installers that ask users questions during install, "Klingon interrogation mode" among other choice epithets.)


Those are very good points. I'll almost certainly be changing my DownloadPlugin to follow that behavior. But I'll probably have to leave the email entry as a post-install process since that's what my boss wants. Entering your email during an install is somewhat annoying and unfortunately from a business standpoint users are probably less likely to go through an install if they see an email in the beginning. I'd personally prefer that it be in the application somewhere instead, but that's out of my hands. Sad to say, but "Kingon interrogation mode" sort of works here (we do leave it optional though).

On a side note, I probably learned some bad installation principles from being a former employee of InstallShield. j/k InstallShield is great. ;)
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