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Re: Creating Installer for Tiger as well Leopard Versions

Subject: Re: Creating Installer for Tiger as well Leopard Versions
From: Bill Coderre <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:59:18 -0800

On Nov 15, 2007, at 9:37 PM, JanakiRam wrote:

Hi All,
I'm new to the mac installer world , please bear me if i ask you simple query.

Actually i'm developing a Mac Application ( having cocoa app , unix executable , kext and others.. ) , now i need to create an installer for it.

My Application is has 2 versions , one for Tiger & another for Leopard. Now i need to create an package maker installer --> which should detect the OS dynamically and install particular version of OS.
          Is this be possible ?.
Please provide your thoughts on implementing this feature. Thanks in Advance.

You can make an mpkg that chooses one package for Leopard, one for Tiger. Stuff that's common, put it in a third package that is installed in both cases.

You would use a Distribution Script to do all the thinking about whether you can install at all, what drives can be installed on, and which packages get installed.

Note that some fraction of your user base is going to install your app on Tiger, then upgrade to Leopard, then call you and get you to send them another install disk because they lost theirs.

So also, your app really should provide a good error message when launched on the wrong OS.

And yeah, in retrospect, you'll probably end up wishing you made one app that worked on both, but for now, sure, go right ahead. Just figure out some kind of really clever way of doing version numbers. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (email@hidden) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: This email sent to email@hidden References: >Creating Installer for Tiger as well Leopard Versions (From: JanakiRam <email@hidden>) Prev by Date: Re: Creating Installer for Tiger as well Leopard Versions Next by Date: Groups, resources, installer stuff Previous by thread: Re: Creating Installer for Tiger as well Leopard Versions Next by thread: Groups, resources, installer stuff Index(es): Date Thread