Install a packages without getting the "Additional items you may wish to install" dialog

[J.C._Andersen]

Hi.

We build all our deployment software into NI packages. But I get very irritated when the NI Packages Manager shows the "Additional items you may wish to install" dialog with something that is completely irrelevant for my software. 

So my question is: How do I make sure that NI Packages Manager do not ever show this when I install my own packages? 

I needs to something you can set on packages to ensure that our customers do not get that dialog ether.

Thanks.

[Oli_Wachno]

Hi Jens,

how are you creating these Packages? LabVIEW build, Command Line, Package Builder?

[J.C._Andersen]

Hi Oli.

I use LabVIEW build specs, since I find that interface the easiest to use.

[Oli_Wachno]

I suspect this is the reason.... 

The NI Package format allows you to define recommended and suggested packages.  I faintly remember having asked a similar question in this forum, but I wasn't able to find it right now.

We are using the Package Builder, which allows you to specify these packages.

My guess is that the LabVIEW implementation just adds whatever it thinks .... 

Is that already Nigel working? 😂

Details to be found here: https://www.ni.com/docs/de-DE/bundle/package-manager/page/control-file-attributes.html

[J.C._Andersen]

Thank you for the suggestion.

Yes, it could be a thing set to default in the in the simplified user interface in the LabVIEW build spec.

We have recently switched from LabVIEW 2019 SP1 to LabVIEW 2024 Q3 as out go to stable LabVIEW version. And when I look at it now, it seams that the issue is not there with packages build with LabVIEW 2019 SP1 but it is there when they are build with LabVIEW 2024 Q3.

I understand that the NI Packages Builder has more features, but last I looked at it was a couple of years ago, and I found that the user experience felt kind of broken. Has that improved in later versions?

Also I seems counter intuitive to build an executable or PPL in the LabVIEW project and then open another application to build the packages.

I hope Nigel stays out of my LabVIEW projects for a long time to come 😉

[altenbach]

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@J.C._Andersen wrote:

But I get very irritated when the NI Packages Manager shows the "Additional items you may wish to install" dialog with something that is completely irrelevant for my software. 

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Fully agree, should even apply to NI packages :D.