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Re: InstallerSections.plist - Place an installer plugin behind thesummary
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Re: InstallerSections.plist - Place an installer plugin behind thesummary


  • Subject: Re: InstallerSections.plist - Place an installer plugin behind thesummary
  • From: Paul Grathwohl <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:30:19 +0100

Hello Stephane,

thanks for giving the reason, why it's not possible.
The idea was to display some information to the user, after the installation was done (like where he could look for updates when he installed from a potentially old dvd-medium). Showing that information before the installation seems too early, and showing it before the user got the message that the medium-installation succeeded also seems not optimal (but might be ok...).

Another thing I maybe need in the future is to have an "always up to date" installer and I was thinking how to do it with the standard installer. A "self-made" approach could be to have an installer plugin that downloads and installs the latest patch directly after the installation of the version from the medium. But maybe that's a bad idea (starting an installation at the end of another installation is probably hard to make intuitive for the user).

Yours,
Paul

From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
> <email@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > is it possible to place an installer plugin behind the "Summary" section of
> > the installer (i.e. at the very end)?
> > If I try to do that in the InstallerSections.plist, my plugin will
> > nevertheless appear directly after the installation step and _before_ the
> > summary.
> >
> > I tried with this InstallerSections.plist:
> >
> > <key>SectionOrder</key>
> > <array>
> >         <string>Introduction</string>
> >         <string>ReadMe</string>
> >         <string>License</string>
> >         <string>Target</string>
> >         <string>PackageSelection</string>
> >         <string>Install</string>
> >         <string>FinishUp</string>
> >         <string>MyPlugin.bundle</string>
> > </array>
> >
> > The behaviour I saw is the same for Flat and Bundle Packages. I tested with
> > 10.7.5.
>
> Since the Summary step can invite the user to logout, shutdown or
> restart the computer, it could make no sense to have a button with
> such an action and then not perform this action.
>
> Maybe there's another solution for what you are trying to achieve. So
> what are you trying to do?

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