site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Am 08.09.2008 um 20:13 schrieb John Brisbin: Thanks to everyone for the input! Regards, Tom_E _______________________________________________ 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... This should hardly be news to anyone who reads this list, but I hope it might become a bit more important in the developer's (or their manager's) minds. Fortunately, we still target 10.4 (and will for some time) so any 10.5 features tend to be unused anyway. This means there is still time for us (and most developers with existing products) to allow the tool to mature enough to be useful. Well, I have a strong aversion against banana-soft ("ripes at the customer site"). The worst thing IMO is that permission-wise broken installers pretty easy bypass an QA test and there is no log what was actually installed or skipped.. Here is some more food for google: - the package maker pmdoc files contain pretty straightforward xml files with the installer data - in various attempts, there I found NO way to make anything remotely like the install destination path appear in the xml. - I worked around the "lost permissions" bug with an post-install script. Ugly but effective. - the docs leave as much as the app itself room for improvement. The following points are missing an explaination: a.) what is the difference between the destination path in a choice and a package b.) the checkbox [x] include root in package of the content tab of an sub-package seems to mean "create an folder with the name of the root folder at the destination path", otherwise the child folders are created / updated at the destination path c.) some important settings are hidden in the contextual "Package flags…" menu of a sub-package d.) even if choices are not visible, the choice name appears as caption in File->Show Files the installer e.) Loading a kext after install by the means of Package Maker is flaky: Sometimes with broken permissions an dialog "is not installed correctly" appears directly when the install is done, but not always This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com