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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: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:30:54 -0700

What's "Klingon UI input"?

Please file radar bugs/enhancement requests for any changes you'd like. Be as specific as possible.

-pmb


At 5:24 PM -0700 5/11/07, Andy Kim wrote:
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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