Any further progress, Matt?

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Derek Lamb <de...@boulder.swri.edu> wrote:

> excellent.  I have been barely able to keep my head above water teaching
> this semester.  Thankfully final exams are in less than 3 weeks.
>
> The most promising thing I found way back when was:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11487596/making-os-x-installer-packages-like-a-pro-xcode4-developer-id-mountain-lion-re
>
> Other than that, I'm sorry to say that I'm not of much of use at the
> moment.
>
> Derek
>
> On Apr 10, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Matthew Kenworthy wrote:
>
> > I'm cautious to raise false hopes, but I finally worked out some of my
> > static building issues yesterday. If a mac guru can give me a hint on
> > how to use the new command line package manager, I think I'm close to
> > a new SciPDL build.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On 10 April 2014 15:18, Chris Marshall <devel.chm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> HI Derek/Mac Users/Developers-
> >>
> >> How are things going with SciPDL building?
> >>
> >> I'm giving myself a deadline to finish the 64bit index
> >> support for a PDL-2.008 release (maybe candidate)
> >> before the DCBPW and the PDL3 hackathon.  That
> >> way any talks, planning, and coding can look
> >> forward rather than backward at PDL-2.x issues.
> >>
> >> It would be great to have a SciPDL-2.008 to go with.
> >>
> >> --Chris
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Derek Lamb <de...@boulder.swri.edu>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Ignorance, maybe?
> >>>
> >>> On the other hand--"An application that installs kernel extensions,
> >>> startup items, system-wide preference panes, or any other system-wide
> >>> resources cannot be installed [as a bundle] by dragging the
> application,
> >>> since those resources need to be in a separate place on the drive."
> >>>
> >>> Since we're using the system perl and installing extra perl libs into
> >>> /usr/local/lib, then that is probably why we are using an installer.
> >>> PackageMaker.app was deprecated by Apple in favor of some command-line
> >>> utils, so the functionality is still there.
> >>>
> >>> If we wanted to zip up our own perl & ship it with, then we could
> probably
> >>> use a bundle, and that would get around the problem of SciPDL only
> working
> >>> on one version of OS X.... that's less of an issue now since Mavericks
> is a
> >>> free upgrade, but some people (incl. me) haven't bitten the bullet yet.
> >>>
> >>> Derek
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Chris Marshall wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Derek Lamb <de...@boulder.swri.edu>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> As an update:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have a VirtualBox with OS X 10.9 Mavericks cleanly installed, all
> of
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> development tools, and figuring out how to make a Mac package.
> >>>>> Unfortunately,
> >>>>> at some point Apple has deprecated PackageMaker.app, which was used
> to
> >>>>> bundle all of SciPDL together.  Hoping that it will still work for
> one
> >>>>> more iteration.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any reason we're not using a bundle instead of an installer?  The
> >>>> directions
> >>>> won't help much if the PackageMaker.app disappears before the
> PDL-2.008
> >>>> release...
> >>>>
> >>>> -chm
> >>>>
> >>>>> So yes, SciPDL work is progressing, but only when I can cobble
> together
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> half-hour at a time in between teaching, grading, kids, etc.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> best,
> >>>>> Derek
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Kenworthy / Assistant Professor / Leiden Observatory / NL
> > http://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~kenworthy/
> >
>
>
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