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Re: UI (Installer Plugins) and headless installations
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Re: UI (Installer Plugins) and headless installations


  • Subject: Re: UI (Installer Plugins) and headless installations
  • From: Peter Mulholland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 01:50:46 +0100

Hello Mike,

Sunday, May 13, 2007, 1:23:51 AM, you wrote:

> For example, in one project, for which I wrote an installer, the
> installed software is basically a UNIX daemon + additional supporting
> files. But it also needs an Installer Plugin for entering the license
> number (it is commercial software) and choosing some options which
> would be very awkward to do at any other point in time or through any
> other method.

Why not simply make a small program that pops up a dialog for the user
to enter the code, and then run this in your installers Postflight
script ? That will work on 10.3 and earlier as well, then. It's
probably easier than writing an Installer Plugin too (trivial with NIB
files for the GUI)

--
Best regards,
 Peter                            mailto:email@hidden

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