site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com -pmb _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... At 5:42 PM -0700 4/26/07, Mike wrote: If it breaks in the future I will re-write it as I usually end up re-writing things anyway to work around Apple's lack of features and lack of documentation. That's fine, but it leaves your customers who get the package from secondary sources in the lurch. Maybe you don't expect old versions of your product to be hanging around the internet on download sites and such, but for some developers, that can be very common. Or maybe if the Installer/Packagemaker docs actually *mentioned* when Installer closes the package, that would be helpful in making this decision also. But that's too much to expect from a 'world-class' company such as Apple. The PackageMaker docs are abysmal BTW. I would fire whomever wrote them. I agree that Apple doesn't invest enough in our documentation. That's been noticed and there should be some visible improvement in the next 12 months. Maybe if Apple included a simple feature such as this in PackageMaker, we wouldn't even be wasting our time on this discussion Don't blame me - I have to work around your laziness. What's the radar # for your enhancement request? The bug wasn't obvious among the more than a thousand I'm tracking. Peter Bierman wrote: At 5:18 PM -0700 4/26/07, Mike wrote: My guess is in Installer.app when "Restart" is clicked it just quits Installer and everything goes away. It probably ignores any errors if the bundle from a pkg can't be closed or it may in fact have already closed the pkg when the Restart pane is displayed. Don't guess. You've got two of Apple's installer engineers telling you not to rely on that behavior. You won't get much sympathy if you do it anyway and it breaks in the future. -pmb This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com