> On 20 May 2026, at 16:10, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 20 May 2026, at 15:50, FZiegler <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> On May 20, 2026, at 9:36 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Indeed, a snapshot from the website will not give you the externals, the >>> sourceforge source web services also don’t reference the externals at all. >>> You can of course get the externals yourself separately from that website, >>> but you need to know which one and where to put them. There are 3 externals >>> (as you noted): QuickLook-BibDesk, vendorsrc, and SkimNotes. You can get >>> the first two also as a tarball, look in the trunk (the latter has a >>> different name there). The SkimNotes can be downloaded from the skim-app >>> sources. >> >> Oh, it didn’t complain about missing QuickLook-BibDesk, but indeed I got it >> in the snapshot: >> >> $ ls -l .. >> total 0 >> drwxr-xr-x@ 733 fziegler staff 23456 May 20 08:49 bibdesk >> drwxr-xr-x@ 112 fziegler staff 3584 May 19 15:16 bibdesk_2_test >> drwxr-xr-x@ 48 fziegler staff 1536 May 19 15:16 bibdesk_ios >> drwxr-xr-x@ 12 fziegler staff 384 May 19 15:16 bibdesk_vendorsrc >> drwxr-xr-x@ 17 fziegler staff 544 May 19 15:16 bibdeskinputmanager >> drwxr-xr-x@ 19 fziegler staff 608 May 20 09:43 QuickLook-BibDesk >> drwxr-xr-x@ 11 fziegler staff 352 May 19 15:16 testfiles >> >> How do I get it compiled and included in BibDesk.app (as I guess it must? Or >> do I just separately build QuickLook-BibDesk/QuickLook-BibDesk.xcodeproj?) >> >> Francois > > > The BibDesk target should include the QuickLook-BibDesk target, so it should > just be compiled together. But the one you mentioned is a different copy at a > higher level of the repository (in trunk). The BibDesk project looks for the > external inside the bibdesk directory (which is a copy). So I don’t > understand why it does not complain about this one missing, it should. > > BTW, you don’t need a snapshot of the whole trunk, that includes a lot of > files you don’t need to build BibDesk. You could just get separate snapshots > of bibdesk, QuickLook-BibDesk, bibdesk_vendorsrc, and SkimNotes, and > reassemble them inside bibdesk to simulate the externals with the expected > directory names (bibdesk/QuickLook-BibDesk, bibdesk/vendorsrc, and > bibdesk/SkimNotes). > > Christiaan
I have updated the Wiki with this information. Also, could you not use git svn to get the repository? You should use the -r option to only get the latest revision. Christiaan
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