Sean Leather
Too bad the installer still doesn't work -- I'm working on it everyone, but the Mac installer system is incredibly crufty and broken, and Snow Leopard broke a lot of stuff for me.
Is it possible to build the installer on a Leopard system/virtual machine such that it will install on a Snow Leopard system?
I think that's the approach I'm going to have to take. I still have my Leopard DVD sitting around, I'll try building the thing in a VirtualBox or maybe even doing a separate Leopard edition of the platform installer.
> 7. Why can't I have a single .pkg file?
Short answer: I can't figure out how, and not for lack of trying, either. What I do is take the binary installer that the GHC guys build as a starting point. Despite many hours of reverse-engineering I cannot for the life of me figure out how to extract the GHC installer package from the binary "metapackage".
I'm completely ignorant of how the installer packages work, but is it possible to have one package refer to another? Thus, one installer could initiate another. Then, at least there is only one click needed for the whole thing.
I don't have a good working solution for this, so the situation will have to remain status quo (i.e. clicking two installers) for now.
The platform installer is supposed to erase previous platform editions before it installs itself.
That's good. Is it possible to include an uninstaller as well?
It would be pretty easy to bundle a shell script.
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Gregory Collins