PackageMaker home directrory installers for pre 10.5 systems
PackageMaker home directrory installers for pre 10.5 systems
- Subject: PackageMaker home directrory installers for pre 10.5 systems
- From: patrick machielse <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:28:34 +0100
I'm developing a plugin (exporter) for iPhoto 08 that should be
installed in ~/Library/Application Support/iPhoto/Plugins. Since
installers are encouraged now, and I certainly don't want the user to
have to dig around in ~/Libarary/ (using the Finder, on paths that
Spotlight won't search) I thought I'd turn to PackageMaker.
For deployments on 10.5 I can specify that the product only be
installed into the user's Home Directory domain, and all is well.
However, this PackageMaker domain is not supported on 10.4 and the
(very light) documentation of PackageMaker doesn't explain how to
achieve the same result on earlier versions of the OS.
I've searched for a solution on the internet and it was suggested some
years ago that you could install the product in a temporary directory
and then have a post-install script move the installed component to
its final destination. Alternatively, a symlink to a location in the
home directory could be created in /tmp/ using a pre-flight script,
and the installer would install through that. Is this still the way to
do it in 2007?
thanks,
patrick
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Hieper Software
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