[OT] Building Mac Installers

[Andre Garzia]

Scott,

I assume you have the Developers Tools installed on your mac. There's  
an application called PackageMaker that is bundled with it. It allows  
you to build .pkg files with all the options you want including scripts.

a quote:

"You can bundle executable files within your package and  
Installer.app will run these executables during the install.  
Generally these files will be shell scripts."

Just launch it and look into the help file, everything is there!!!

Cheers
andre



On Jan 29, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Scott,
>
> the installer must be a .pkg? can't you build a stack that is an  
> installer and will execute the scripts and everything? it might be  
> easier...
>
> Andre
>
> On Jan 29, 2007, at 8:03 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>
>> This is an off-topic request for anyone who has experience building
>> installers on the Mac platform that rely on scripts.  I received a  
>> request
>> from a client to build installers that need to do some condition  
>> checking
>> and be editable on the client's end, via text-editing a script or  
>> similar.
>> DMG drag-install is not an option due to file-checking needs, and  
>> packages
>> that charge per seat/year usage fees are not acceptable.
>>
>> I came across a package called MacInstallerBuilder which looks  
>> promising,
>> but am wondering if any folks around here have other experience  
>> and/or
>> suggestions.  Please contact off-list.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> Scott Rossi
>> Creative Director
>> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
>> -----
>> E: scott at tactilemedia.com
>> W: http://www.tactilemedia.com
>>
>>
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