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: Andy Kim <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:24:17 -0700
Yup, our app doesn't require that the plugins execute (if I pulled
the plugins out, the app would run fine, and we do have a second
mechanism to download the additional "app library" from the app's
preferences). With that in mind, I put anything that's *required*
for our app in the scripts.
The only real complaint I have with Apple's package format is that
sometimes it's unavoidable that a runtime error may occur during the
install process, and there's no easy/built-in way to get Klingon UI
input to handle this case ("built-in" being more important since it
could do installer specific error handling for non-UI installs) .
Thanks - Andy
On May 11, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Peter Bierman wrote:
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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