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Christoph Hart

@orange it‘s gone.

Christoph Hart

@Simon Wouldn't hold my breath for it I haven't seen him here for quite some time so not sure if he gets the notification.

Christoph Hart

A non-sudoer account should be unable to install most software.

Yes if it writes to the global library folder. But why macOS refuses to write to the user folder is beyond me - that's the entire reason for a user folder and you shouldn't need admin rights to write to your own folder.

Christoph Hart

@Simon Check on a user account that hasn't admin rights, I'm pretty sure that's the 1% that Casey was talking about :)

Christoph Hart

@Simon Not sure if related, but macOS fails to write to the user library if the user has no admin rights. Don't ask why, but this basically caused my entire idea of making a installer solution using the multipage creator obsolete.

Christoph Hart

@aaronventure you will not be able to stream out of a ZIP file so it has to be decompressed on the user's disk unless you shove the entire content into the users memory.

You can create (even encrypted) expansions on the user machine, that's what I've been doing with PercX for years now, but I forgot how to do it. There's a preprocessor called HI_ENABLE_EXPANSION_EDITING that will include some of the tools required for saving samplemaps in the compiled plugin.

Having arbitrary files in there might become a problem though as the expansion system is kind of limited to the specific content types. If it's JSON files or other structured data you can include it in an expansion to store metadata though.

Christoph Hart

You need to press Save in order to apply the values, just editing the text field and closing the options will not suffice.
If you do so, it will perform a sanity test. The plugin code needs to be in the format Abcd (so 1 uppercase character followed by 3 lowercase characters).

Christoph Hart

@d-healey Alright that's fixed - that logic is a bit convoluted because as soon as something is not zero based (like the old RR group values were) it breaks my brain, but you can thank that deficiency of mine for not having to write Lua all day.

Christoph Hart

@clevername27 20 minutes from now, no?

Christoph Hart

There has to be a better solution to this, but I'm not sure what it is.

Nope, that's the way to go. The problem is the intersection between runtime code and compile time code which causes these monstrous switch statements.

@Orvillain if you sign the CLA, I'm happy to accept this beauty of a pull request.

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