Introduction

This is just a dump from the older roadmap. Things have jumbled a bit.

Strike shows the things that are in the current HEAD.

Ideas that have not made it onto the list quite yet are on the Future Ideas page.

Details

1.4

• Logging cleanup
• Language code variable
• ASR filesystem name variable
• Timestamp handler
• Preflight handler - not sure what this is, arguably handled by InstaUp2Date
• PPC image creation format fixes
• Individual package InstallerChoices.xml support
• Caching of the base install
• getopts

1.5

• Logging changes
• More verbose debug log
• Tweaks in the console output
• Use chroot jails for non-OS installs
• Put a copy of the instal log inside the image
• Remove cruft from all temp areas (more important with the chroot jail)
• Compatibility with 10.6 as a host and target OS

1.6

• Detect the OS on installer disks
• Handle multiple BaseOS disks (-I and -J flags)

2.0 (no promises, just a wish list)

• Merge InstaUp2Date into InstaDMG (remove the folder system)
• Cleanup resources, even in a crash (or user initialed stop)
• Possibly allow for different chains based on the installer used
• Rewrite of createUser (make it into a factory)
• Provide drag-and-drop dmgs from OS disks
• Evaluate merging items from second disk
• Use sandboxing to isolate the host OS from any possible change
• Evaluate a catalog of shadow files to correct installer defects
• technique to handle installers that span multiple disks
• Evaluate merging into one DMG
• Move to Python
• Handle installer failures (by stopping cold, with cleanup)
• Improve logging even further
• Evaluate merging catalog files with Munki
• Save points along the build train (speed up minor changes)
• Evaluate need for bad-softlink checking with chroot installs
• Handle non pkg packages (possibilities include naked .apps and silent installer apps with Adobe Creative Suite a main target for the latter)

2.5

• A GUI on top of the script (using Cocoa Bindings to bind directly to the same code)
• Move to using Frameworks for installer and dmg handling, possibly through Obj-C objects