Re: UI (Installer Plugins) and headless installations
Re: UI (Installer Plugins) and headless installations
- Subject: Re: UI (Installer Plugins) and headless installations
- From: Mike Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 21:39:31 +0200
Hi Peter,
Am 14.05.2007 um 21:05 schrieb Peter Mulholland
<email@hidden>:
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 ?
Well for one it would force the user to enter data during the actual
install. Secondly it doesn't really help with the ARD or CLI cases
AFAICT. Third, the Installer Plugin is already implemented ;-)
That will work on 10.3 and earlier as well, then.
Not really an issue for my specific case at the moment.
Anyway, I'm more interested in a general answer to my question of how
to reconcile the need for additional user input with ARD or CLI
installs. I have a working solution for the case where Installer
Plugins (or other interactive GUI) are possible.
It's probably easier than writing an Installer Plugin too (trivial
with NIB
files for the GUI)
Writing an Installer Plugin was very easy as well. With better
documentation (or any at all) it would be just as trivial.
Thanks!
Mike
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