Re: Installer Plugins - how to run as root?
Re: Installer Plugins - how to run as root?
- Subject: Re: Installer Plugins - how to run as root?
- From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:46:56 -0700
At 4:32 PM -0700 5/11/07, Andy Kim wrote:
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. ;)
One last caveat --
Make sure your software doesn't _require_ the plugins to install.
There are several situations under which the installer is unable to
load plugins. They're intended for optional use, with the presumption
that any required actions can also be done in the app itself, if the
app is installed via a mechanism that doesn't support the plugins.
The command line installer is the simplest example, but there are many others.
-pmb
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