installer type for Mac OS X
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installer type for Mac OS X
Afternoon. The ELAN installer works perfectly well, and since it installs everything in the Applications folder, it doesn't need to be run on individual machines. The items it installs can be copied to another machine and installed that way. That's great if you're installing in a large lab or classroom full of Macs. To one-up that installation method, I'd ask for a package version of the installer. It can be pushed from an ARD console to any number of Macs. The installation would be just as clean, and more reliable. Many thanks.
Re: installer type for Mac OS X
I could have a look at what e.g. PackageMaker can do.
There are two main considerations:
- manageability and the amount of overhead. Currently we provide a Webstart and an installer version (there have been times that we had to create separate installers for Java 1.4 and 1.5). If a .pkg can't completely replace the installer, this would add a third variant. (Providing a .zip file that only needs to be extracted would also be an option).
- the installer places most stuff in a single folder, but it also copies (tries to copy) some libraries to <user>/Library/Java/Extensions that are needed for input methods like a virtual keyboard and lookup lists for some languages. Not sure if such copy action is easy to implement in PackageMaker; if not, the user would have to copy these libraries manually (if this functionality is needed) and so far we have tried to avoid that.
In your situation, I assume these input methods are not available on the "client" Macs in the lab or classroom?
-Han
Release of ELAN 4.3.0
