On 09.02.2011 12:02, Erico Mendonca wrote: >>>> On 2/7/2011 at 08:55 PM, in message >>>> > <aanlktinwkojvd-z15hbvr-bc6ac55goluhv1g49d2...@mail.gmail.com>, Mark Miesfeld > <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Excellent Jean-Louis. I forgot to methion DESTDIR. >> >> If you can build on a Mac and have copious free time, maybe you'd like >> to tackle building an installable package? <grin> >> >> > It appears the only "official" method for creating installers on the Mac is > this one: > > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/PackageMakerUserGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html > > There is also a NullSoft installer port at: http://nsis.darwinports.com/ > > But I haven't used any of those yet. I still need the "copious free time" > part to do that :) > Although there are Apple GUI-based utilities the students have the task to create the bundles "by hand", such that that process can be Makefile controlled. The links you supply are great, because they lead one quite directly to the spots where Apple talks about their file system structures and what goes with what (though there is additional knowledge needed).
The task for the students to make everything "batchable" is to make the creation of MacOSX bundles independent of any third party tools (even from Apple), which will allow eventually everyone on a Mac to create the bundles from the command line interface without a need to first delve into whatever GUI-based tools there are and to learn their logic how to operate the GUIs first (which may take precious time away). Besides, in the end it is astonishing to see how little one needs to do, if one knows what one does... :) As the students write up a seminar paper on the BSF4ooRexx installation for MacOSX and a Bachelor thesis on BSF4ooRexx installers for Windows, Linux and MacOSX (here including ooRexx with BSF4ooRexx itself), all their research efforts and experiments should be available for anyone who is interested in this area of development. (It will take a little while though, before these are done.) ---rony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
