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Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / June 2005best installer program for OS X?
Hi there, having got my release code working with thanks to the group I am now searching for info on the best installer to use. We have two needs: 1. For a web download to install an application which each time it is run can search for new releases of itself and its assets. Hopefully then do a minimal download to patch itself up to latest release standard. 2. For a hybrid CD-ROM installation to the mac. The main requirement here is to be able to download a mac specific application from the disk and then simply copy a number of assets directly from the CD-ROM in uncompressed form (because they are shared to the PC version, eg JPGs). installers that simply pack everything into one great file are no good you see because there would not be enough room on the cd-rom for both pc and mac versions. Any pointers would be appreciated and a virtual beer will be sent to you! many thanks Gary > Hi there, having got my release code working with thanks to the group I > am now searching for info on the best installer to use. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Any pointers would be appreciated and a virtual beer will be sent to you! One thing Mac's seem to lack is a good online patching installer. Windows has more of that (for a price) + ActiveX controls that make a web install simpler to do. I used to put out hybrid CD installs for my company, that offered several overlapping sets out of about 5000 asset files. Pretty much any installer that can copy external files will work: you might even try the Apple package installer w/ some scripts. I wrote ours from scratch to get OS9 + simple patching, but I don't recommend that (like many internal tools, it was too much trouble to maintain and got hackier and hackier over time.) One thing I discovered about hybrid CD's is that they tend to work better if burned from OS9. YMMV, but Toast on OS9 did a better job of locating the files I wanted to be visible where I wanted them, and Toast on OSX wasn't really stable enough to use at the time anyway. |
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