Mac installer for audio sample libraries best practices?

[Oli Ullmann]

@WillowWolf
You can use white box packages.

[DanH]

@Oli-Ullmann yes but you can't write to the system and user folders simultaneously on OSX so you end up needing a separate samples installer if you want the user to be able to choose their own sample location.

[David Healey]

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

but you can't write to the system and user folders simultaneously on OSX s

You can, see the video I made about it

[DanH]

@David-Healey ooh, is there a link or is it patreon only?

[dannytaurus]

@WillowWolf You could look at Package Builder too. Apparently it's been updated to specifically handle installing audio plugins, so I assume it would do what you need.

https://www.araelium.com/packagebuilder

[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?