Quote - I have lion but haven't installed it yet, because I have a lot of old content that might have daz installers that I haven't installed yet.

Love esther

Hi Esther,

One thing I do to future proof against the (horrible) DAZ installers is to make runtime zips out of them.

To do this, I run the installer, targeting a newly created desktop folder named the same as the package.  This creates the normal runtime hierarchy in that folder.  That's pretty much all the installer does for our purposes.  Then I install that runtime using RSRConv (like all other content). Then I zip those and store them.

For old content, I actually use the windows installers, doing the same thing in a VMWare windows session.

A major advantage of runtime zips, of course, is being able to reinstall everything very easily with a single simple shell script. Another is portability and backwards compatibility. A separate installer is a "silly thing". A smarter method would be to include the package installer in DS and Poser.

Hmmmm. I sense a script in my future. :D

 

cheers ^^