On Feb 9, 2005, at 23:47, Roger Binns wrote:
You can make a single app appear be in the native installer format for each platform. We did it for BitPim. Go ahead, download and try it. You don't actually need a cell phone for the program to run.
This is the Python code used to do the installer work:
http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/bitpim/bitpim/makedist.py?view=markup
Slides 18 through 22 of this talk explain how it is done. Note however that we now use py2app on Mac.
http://bitpim.org/papers/baypiggies/
In your presentation you say that serial devices on the Mac are in /dev with "no other information". That is totally not true, unless you say "no other information available from POSIX" ;) You can get at any metadata you want to know about any hardware device in the system (and plug/unplug notifications) from IOKit. The code to do the serial port enumeration is rather trivial (as trivial as refcounted C goes, anyway):
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/SerialPortSample/ SerialPortSample.html
I don't think anyone has wrapped IOKit, but it wouldn't be that hard to wrap the useful parts. Maybe I'll look into it, since I do use IOKit for FireWire and USB notifications in one of my apps. My current implementation does this with an Objective-C class compiled as a Python extension, so from PyObjC I can just objc.lookUpClass and talk to it without writing any additional ugly wrapper code.
-bob
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