Re: Removing the Installer Dialogs in Packages
Re: Removing the Installer Dialogs in Packages
- Subject: Re: Removing the Installer Dialogs in Packages
- From: Don Montalvo <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:55:14 -0600
Bill Coderre <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Karthikeyan M wrote:
>
>> The package we create using snapshot method in Composer normally has following
>>
>> 1.Welcome Window will show continue button
>> 2.Installation type with Install button,
>> 3.Authentication Dialog
>> 4.progress bar
>> 5.The Final Close Window
>>
>> I have to make two changes (ie) remove the Install Type window and add Install button in the Welcome Screen and finally installer window should close (if possible).
>>
>> Even i too consider to use Standard Install but our management requirement. :-(
>
> OK, I'll bite the bait: It would be difficult if not impossible to make the official Apple Installer.app behave in accordance with your spec.
>
> Run that one up the flagpole and see how it goes.
>
> I'll leave it up to other people to discuss third-party installer applications. I don't use them.
>
> My off-the-cuff guess as to how to achieve the result using Mac-standard tools would be to write a program that provides the kind of user experience you specify, then calls the unix command "installer" to do the actual installation.
>
> IT WOULD BE A NON-TRIVIAL PROGRAM, since it would involve hooking up password authorization, gathering progress information, setting up the Unix launch environment so that existing packages get the environment variables they expect, etc.
>
> Would end users tolerate such a thing? I probably should not comment.
I agree, that default behavior for Apple Installer is probably something that's not safe to futz with (for vulnerability risk management if anything). Just a guess, this may be a request from management with the intent to align with the Wintel side installer behavior? Adobe (CS suite) is a good example of how things can go haywire if one platform's default installer processes are bent to align with other platform processes. It can be quite a management nightmare. :)
I am also not a fan of third party installer formats (InstallerVISE, Mindvision, etc.), preferring Apple's standard pkg/mpkg format for distribution. That said, if the environment has Casper, the software is deployable using Self Service.
Don
_______________________________________________
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