Re: InstallerSections.plist - Place an installer plugin behind thesummary
Re: InstallerSections.plist - Place an installer plugin behind thesummary
- Subject: Re: InstallerSections.plist - Place an installer plugin behind thesummary
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:45:17 -0800
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Paul Grathwohl
<email@hidden> wrote:
> 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...).
You can use a custom (and localized) Summary text. So this may fit
your needs. RTF(d), TXT or HTML.
> 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).
With distributions, it's possible to have a package be hosted on a
http server and just have a reference to it in the distribution
script.
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