Re: Mac Installers
Re: Mac Installers
- Subject: Re: Mac Installers
- From: Fred Priese <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:30:01 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Mac Installers
Title: Re: Mac Installers
Hi Scott,
My installer requirements are similar in that the base PackageMaker will not do the job. I am using two Installer Plugins though and they work pretty well. Not perfect, I think there is a bug in the Xcode template (you need to add outlets in Interface Builder for some of the expected connections,) but it is doing what we need it to do. We require an authentication against a network server which happens in the first plugin and then in the second we do some clean up that a post-flight/install script is not appropriate since it MUST be run without asking the user to approve running the external script.
That being said, there have been times where I have been tempted to just write a Cocoa app to do the authentication/authorization then copy the components from the package around the system as necessary, but I think we have everything mostly nailed down now.
In short, PackageMaker with Installer Plugins can do what you need it to do.
Fred
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On 10/10/08 11:55 AM, "development2" <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi,
I have recently been asked to do a contract to create a couple of
installers. Now these installers must mimic (as much as possible)
there Windows counterparts. I have gotten them to agree to letting me
at least make it as Mac like as possible. The problem is it needs to
do some non-standard functionality within the installer. This software
installation is for Hardware, so it must initialize the Hardware and
gather information from the device and the user. It also must play
required video at first and then an optional video at the end of the
install. I also must be able to add Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, Popup
menus, Buttons, text fields and static text. So I have been looking at
installers but am not sure which one would be the best to use. I have
looked at PackageMaker, Iceberg, Installer VISE, and InstallAnywhere.
Packagemaker does not look like it will do what I need. But i m not
sure about the others, I need to create several screens for the
install that mimic the Windows installer.
Can anyone give me any direction on the best way to go. Unfortunately
they are asking for an answer today ( I just talked to them last
night :) ), so any help or direction would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott
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