site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Peter, On Nov 1, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Peter Mulholland wrote: Hello Luke, Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 3:26:34 PM, you wrote: We're aware of this limitation of the Installer (not being able to provide feedback from installer scripts as to their duration) and we've got it documented as work we'll hope to address soon. Will this feature be pushed back into previous installer versions, or only in 10.5 ? If you don't push it back, it's not going to be much use. Okay then, you say, so what *can* we do on this list?

From your 31 October, 2006 email to this list: Our solution to this problem in future, unfortunately, has been to write a custom installer tool. Best, Luke -- Best regards, Peter mailto:darkmatter@freeuk.com

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/luke%40apple.com _______________________________________________ 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... Hi Peter, <snip> I never said this would be available in 10.5. As we often say on this list, we can't comment on work that we're currently doing, nor can we make forward-looking statements about a particular feature/bug-fix/ enhancement's availability. Let's look at your problem holistically here, and the resources you have available to you to solve that problem:

Yep, I've just done a title for a games company where this is an

issue. The only content installed by the package itself is the game's

.app - the game's data is extracted into the app during postflight using

7-Zip as this was the only way to get it to fit onto CD. We have already

had people asking if the installer is hanging as it can take up to 10

minutes for the content to decompress. You could write a light-weight tool in Cocoa (or whatever your favorite-flavored UI is) that would pop up an alert dialog indicating that the installer is performing some modal operation that is blocking the actual package install (which is, in fact, what you're doing by putting your installer in a package) and having that alert dialog indicate its progress with a progress bar. Once complete the alert can be disposed of, and the Installer will come to the foreground and its progress bar will continue along. The user-experience would be more coherent if we can integrate script- durations into the Installer's single progress bar -- I think we can all agree on that. However, writing an indicator tool to publish to status of your script's work-in-progress solves your problem of having a confused user think their install is hung. This email sent to luke@apple.com

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