Mac installer for audio sample libraries best practices?

[David Healey]

@dannytaurus said in Mac installer for audio sample libraries best practices?:

specifically handle installing audio plugins

What does this mean?

@DanH said in Mac installer for audio sample libraries best practices?:

ooh, is there a link or is it patreon only?

Yes it's on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108026744

The instructions are in the Packages documentation.

I'll also be including the instructions in the packaging workshop I'm working on.

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey said in Mac installer for audio sample libraries best practices?:

What does this mean?

I don't know. I'm repeating what I read in other posts here. Hence the 'apparently'

I do know it has an Audio Plugin option when you create a new package project.

And given that installing different files to different locations, including to both user and system directories, is a very common requirement for audio plugins, I assume it will handle it.

Haven't tried it myself yet though.

EDIT: looks like the Audio Plugin option might be purely a visual element, and it doesn't actually do anything special.

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey You get the Destinations settings below. I'm not 100% clear if that means User folder and System Disk though.

EDIT: actually, that Destinations section just dictates what the user sees on this page of the installer:

I think just back away quietly. I'm just making things worse here

[David Healey]

@dannytaurus said in Mac installer for audio sample libraries best practices?:

You get the Destinations settings below. I'm not 100% clear if that means User folder and System Disk though.

Those are also in Packages, I think this is just a different UI for the same thing. Behind the scenes they're both using pkgbuild and productbuild.

[David Healey]

Is there a way to get packages to prompt the user for a location to install a specific component such as samples?

@Casey-Kolb I seem to recall you were doing something like this?

[Casey Kolb]

@David-Healey It was so finicky we ended up just installing them to a default location on the hard drive. If the user wants to move them, they just move them to an external drive and relocate them in CUBE.

[Lindon]

@Casey-Kolb said in Mac installer for audio sample libraries best practices?:

@David-Healey It was so finicky we ended up just installing them to a default location on the hard drive. If the user wants to move them, they just move them to an external drive and relocate them in CUBE.

shudder.... this is exactly why we went with an in-plugin set up for samples, meta data, presets and images etc.

So the "installer" only has to actually install the plugin itself...

[dannytaurus]

@Casey-Kolb What default location did you use?

[WillowWolf]

@Casey-Kolb What was your approach to making an in plugin setup for samples?

Any advice or suggestions would be helpful, since I'm exploring a similar route.

[HISEnberg]

@David-Healey Yea it can be done. I think @Lindon's suggestion is much better but a little more work. It looks like Packages may be updated, but I recall having an issue with the version available at the time. You need a version which actually let's you edit the Presentation of the Installer.

Note too, if you go down this route you also need to autogenerate the LinkFile which points to the sample directory. This is usually autogenerated in the Application Support Folder when a user installs the sample.

David if you are looking to further explore the benefits of vibe coding a solution this is a good candidate....

[David Healey]

@HISEnberg said in Mac installer for audio sample libraries best practices?:

You need a version which actually let's you edit the Presentation of the Installer.

I have that version. I don't see a way to prompt the user to select a location though. I emailed the dev about it but no response as yet.