[Composer] Feature requests - Was chopping up packages

[Smith, William]

On 2/26/09 3:16 PM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

> OK, it looks like in Composer 7 there is a prebuilt environment tab that
> saves all of your packages and I am able to just create separate ilife
> installs off of that tab?

I'm beginning to see a couple of feature requests here because Composer 7.0
isn't allowing me to do something I think would be intuitive for your
problem.

To do what you're asking, application suites are usually installed and then
one major pre-built folder is created. It includes (using Adobe CS4 as an
example):

    Applications
        Adobe Acrobat 9.0
        Adobe Bridge CS4
        Adobe Extension Manager CS4
        Adobe Help Viewer 1.1
        Adobe Illustrator CS4
        Adobe InDesign CS4
        Adobe Media Player.app
        Adobe Photoshop CS4
    Library
        Application Support
        Color Sync
        Preferences
        Whatever else

To divide this up into individual pre-built folders, you might create a
"common" folder that includes all the /Library items (plus the Bridge,
Extension Manager, Help Viewer, Media Player, etc.) and then individual
pre-built folders for each application (Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign and
Photoshop).

This dividing process takes place completely outside of Composer. I'd like
to see it moved inside Composer.

In Composer 7.x I'm essentially wanting to create "empty" packages (that's
feature request #1) and then copy/move items using drag-n-drop from the
larger package to the empty packages (that's feature request #2).

Right now, Composer does not allow me to just create an empty package nor
can I drag items between packages.

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bill

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