Re: updaters
Re: updaters
- Subject: Re: updaters
- From: Eli Bach <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:03:16 -0800
On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Crawford Kyle wrote:
Well said Greg.
I've been thinking about this. Is there a way Apple could disallow
these arbitrary installer scripts and still support the scenarios
that seem to require them? Perhaps this warrants a separate thread.
Kyle
Then Apple would have to 'know' all the things developers would want
to do in postinstall scripts, and then instead of having a postinstall
script, developers would just be able to do postinstall 'actions'.
I hope this doesn't happen, as there will always be something a
developer has to do (well, that somebody in marketing wants to do)
that won't be covered by whatever list of actions Apple comes up with.
I think PackageMaker 3.0 kind of started along this path, with flat
packages and the pre & post-install 'actions', and I found that the
actions listed (and offhand I didn't see how to add new actions
myself) were no sufficient (I needed to whack the permissions on a
file because building the package using the GUI would helpfully 'fix'
the permissions to be wrong, before I was helped by somebody on this
list to build the package using the cli with the option to not verify
permissions).
But things like this will always be a tradeoff, between the
capabilities of tools and how those capabilities are used (or possibly
abused).
Eli
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