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Re: testing localized license files
by Paul Miller 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) > I'm trying to make my first localized installer (using Iceberg), and no > matter what I try, I can't get the localized license agreement to show. > I can get the rest of the installer to run in French, for example, but > it's not picking up my localized agreement. > > As per the official documentation, I've tried creating sub-folders in > Resources, each with the localized assets. So I've tried creating > Resources/French/License.txt, but that didn't work. In Iceberg I've also > tried explicitly adding a localization entry for the French license > agreement, and also tried adding the French subfolder as an additional > resource, but nothing has worked. > > What am I missing? Is there something else I need to do? -- Paul Miller | paul(a)fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… robert.maggi(a)kodak.com wrote: I don't know if "French" above is a typo, but it should be "Resources/French.lproj/License.txt". (Officially, "fr.lproj" should also work, but I haven't tried that. Thanks Robert - I didn't in fact have the .lproj extension. I renamed the folders, and added each folder as an additional resource to the installer within Iceberg. Now when I run the installer, I get the language menu at the top of the license agreement, and French is selected by default as appropriate, but I'm still seeing the English license agreement. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: testing localized license files
by robert.maggi＠kodak.com 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com > I'm trying to make my first localized installer (using Iceberg), and no > matter what I try, I can't get the localized license agreement to show. > I can get the rest of the installer to run in French, for example, but > it's not picking up my localized agreement. > > As per the official documentation, I've tried creating sub-folders in > Resources, each with the localized assets. So I've tried creating > Resources/French/License.txt, but that didn't work. In Iceberg I've also > tried explicitly adding a localization entry for the French license > agreement, and also tried adding the French subfolder as an additional > resource, but nothing has worked. > > What am I missing? Resources/French.lproj/License.txt

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testing localized license files
by Paul Miller 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) What am I missing? -- Paul Miller | paul(a)fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… I'm trying to make my first localized installer (using Iceberg), and no matter what I try, I can't get the localized license agreement to show. I can get the rest of the installer to run in French, for example, but it's not picking up my localized agreement. As per the official documentation, I've tried creating sub-folders in Resources, each with the localized assets. So I've tried creating Resources/French/License.txt, but that didn't work. In Iceberg I've also tried explicitly adding a localization entry for the French license agreement, and also tried adding the French subfolder as an additional resource, but nothing has worked. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: How to embed a unique ID into an installer PKG?
by Ian Hummel 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com By "archived" you mean zipped... right? On Jul 17, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: On Jul 17, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Ian Hummel wrote: I have a strange requirement. Where do you want to embed the ID: [ ] The name of the package [ ] Inside the package bundle in a file [ ] Inside the Info.plist of the package ? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Is there any format other than DMG that will automatically open when safari has downloaded it? Whenever someone downloads our installer, we need to (on the server) insert a unique identifier somewhere into the installer. Then, during the installation, we use this unique suffix when making requests to another web service. My application is packaged as a PKG (not a "flat-file" - I was considering just renaming the downloaded file server-side and checking it during install) and now I am wondering how to do this... How does one normally embed some kind of unique identifier into each installer? My server is running linux, so the solution would have to work there.... Since your package can only be download if it's archived or inside a disk image, in all cases, you will need to have some processing being done. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Bug in Package Maker causes Mayhem
by Karl Kuehn 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=13fOSwYaa/HhofM1DoGTpAXFNvRH2kcpR+kqfu9IOnc=; b=Tu7Lp2GsD0Ms336p7uYaaqTJIAmMZZQJ8tpt7iOD5PU2wwOuGrdkyktC830RLSKGkh yPCzM+IJjWhd+Xc9RpCP3F5hJeCOhopk9OV7xbzazahUQ/FSpAr7IoBYj6nKYX7pWATd JMTxruDYO3D7MGAx4+zOfiDq541M+BdN1zQ2Q= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=PjFgSJdQKYqYSgoN0OSt3tbq2KJQDfaewgPLglFmIa/KTw1Q7/btYiw7Vgs+BWd7he uAoBxEsSuw5PbJAU2eek/NBuDjXzntbcRcrvYDtSP4qqhwfKR1hzqOCgLY91d8za05NR qJLY1SrY1h2mAkBIX5WtXXsIU3Zfgyy/DHVfE= On Jul 17, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Alexander Hartner wrote: Since upgrading to XCode 3.1 and presumably Package Maker 3.0.2 it seems that the Destination is no longer persisted. I only found out about this problem the hard way after testing my package installation and installing everything in the root of my drive. Initially I thought that this would be not too big a problem, however as it turns out during the installation some system files were overwritten, and I ended up with a broken OS. I spend 2 hours recovering form Time Machine, and still have to do the same on another system where I also "tested" the install package. Unfortunately the last time a I backup the other system was a couple of weeks ago, and now I have to spend a lot of manual effort on this. Well enough about me complaining, however I still would like to know why this happened. I almost shipped this to one of my clients and this would have broken his system as well. Maybe Package Maker is not the ideal method of distributing an Application. Maybe with all this iPhone hype, somebody got stuck in the cloud instead of testing. If anybody has any suggestions for a better solution to package and deploy application please let me know. Mainly due to this bug/gaping hole I have moved back to using Iceberg (and open-source pkg maker). _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Bug in Package Maker causes Mayhem
by Alexander Hartner 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Since upgrading to XCode 3.1 and presumably Package Maker 3.0.2 it seems that the Destination is no longer persisted. I only found out about this problem the hard way after testing my package installation and installing everything in the root of my drive. Initially I thought that this would be not too big a problem, however as it turns out during the installation some system files were overwritten, and I ended up with a broken OS. I spend 2 hours recovering form Time Machine, and still have to do the same on another system where I also "tested" the install package. Unfortunately the last time a I backup the other system was a couple of weeks ago, and now I have to spend a lot of manual effort on this. Well enough about me complaining, however I still would like to know why this happened. I almost shipped this to one of my clients and this would have broken his system as well. Maybe Package Maker is not the ideal method of distributing an Application. Maybe with all this iPhone hype, somebody got stuck in the cloud instead of testing. If anybody has any suggestions for a better solution to package and deploy application please let me know. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: How can I put an installer plugin into a project built with PackageMaker 3.0?
by Ian Hummel 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… It seems like the tools are buggy, they have less features, they only work on 10.5.... Isn't this the definition of a new version of a product on the Mac platform? ;-) What can I say, I'm new here! Lucky for me I found your amazing Iceberg... well done! This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: How can I put an installer plugin into a project built with PackageMaker 3.0?
by Stéphane Sudre 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jul 17, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Ian Hummel wrote: Among other things: o They can be signed _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Thanks everyone. So, what benefits are there really to "flat packages" ? o They can be downloaded. You can specify a package reference with a http URL. It seems like the tools are buggy, they have less features, they only work on 10.5.... Isn't this the definition of a new version of a product on the Mac platform? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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How to embed a unique ID into an installer PKG?
by Ian Hummel 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com I have a strange requirement. Any help would be much appreciated! - ian. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Whenever someone downloads our installer, we need to (on the server) insert a unique identifier somewhere into the installer. Then, during the installation, we use this unique suffix when making requests to another web service. My application is packaged as a PKG (not a "flat-file" - I was considering just renaming the downloaded file server-side and checking it during install) and now I am wondering how to do this... How does one normally embed some kind of unique identifier into each installer? My server is running linux, so the solution would have to work there.... This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: How can I put an installer plugin into a project built with PackageMaker 3.0?
by Ian Hummel 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jul 16, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Bill Coderre wrote: The older format, called "bundle packages" work just fine on 10.5.x. (The Leopard+ only format is called "flat packages".) _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Thanks everyone. So, what benefits are there really to "flat packages" ? It seems like the tools are buggy, they have less features, they only work on 10.5.... any insight? On Jul 16, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: How can I add my plugin to my distribution? If you're targetting OS X 10.5, you can't. The format does not support it. If you target OS X 10.4, you will be able to add it manually (or with a script) after building your package/metapackage. If I cannot do it, how can I revert to PackageMaker 2.0 and just create the old, folder-based installation packages? (the plugin is working fine with a sample folder-style pkg). If you need plugins, use bundle packages. In PackageMaker, tell it you're targeting 10.4. You can then set rules to disallow install on less than 10.5.4, for example. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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