Re: description read only?
Re: description read only?
- Subject: Re: description read only?
- From: "Andrew Peckover" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:00:59 -0700
I hear your frustration. But, personally I sort of hope that they don't fix
all the bugs. Since I have a *lot* of installers that pretty much rely on
workarounds for bugs. If the bugs are fixed, I'd worry that I'd need to
re-do all my installers to be able to compile them with the new version.
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Hodgson" <email@hidden>
To: "Iceberg-Dev" <email@hidden>
Cc: "installer-dev" <email@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: description read only?
What's displayed above is out of phase with what is going to happen,
it says "upgrade" but it's actually going to downgrade... maybe that
results in something not working (I can only guarantee forward
compatibility).
I'm finding this all very frustrating because the whole distribution
package thing on OS X is so close to being great, but it has what to
me seem like big omissions (surely the distribution file should have
pre-install and post-install functions? after all you had them on
meta-packages), and what's the point in only being able to read the
description in the script?
And more importantly, it seems to be buggy, or there's a glaring hole
in the documentation which means that I'm missing something on
versions.
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Iceberg-Dev <email@hidden> wrote:
On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Jon Hodgson wrote:
Nothing stupid about the question.
Your suggestion is one possibility, another, given that the the
installer displays "upgrade" whether it's an upgrade, downgrade, or
just overwriting the same version, would be to add some
information..."you currently have a newer version 2.0.56 installed"
I see. It's good to be a perfectionist but if you find a solution to
change
the description, I'm wondering if this may not introduce confusions for
the
end-user. Because the description might not be in phase with what is
displayed in the list above it.
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