Thank you for the "Universal Binary" JavaApplicationStub you sent us and thank you for confirming that the .dmg distribution works fine on Intel-powered Macs.
We'll remove the -mac.zip distribution which, while not needed, just adds confusion. We'll test the "Universal Binary" JavaApplicationStub to see if it works OK on PowerPC-powered Macs (on both 10.3 and 10.4). --- PS: Because I always use the Terminal, I couldn't imagine that double-clicking on a shell script from the Finder does not execute the script! (Even Windows can do that for .bat files.) Max Berger wrote: > Dear Hussein Shafie, > > > On Apr 5, 2006, at 3:10 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote: >> >> Everything you did is right, but you guessed what to do because you are >> a technical person. We, XMLmind, cannot reasonably ask our Mac users to >> do what you did. > > I would assume that. However, I thought its a good idea to share the > information until an universal version of XXE is released. > > >> >> Here's in fact what we naively had in mind: >> >> --> You have a PowerPC-powered Mac: you need the .dmg distribution. >> (which *probably* works fine on Intel-powered Macs: the PowerPC >> JavaApplicationStub is probably translated on the fly by Rosetta and >> after that, XXE probably uses the native JVM). > > I have just tried that and it works very well. However, the warning on > the webpage discouraged me from even trying before. > >> >> --> You have Intel-powered Mac: you need the -mac.zip distribution. >> No need to start XXE from a Terminal in such case. Simply double-click >> on xxe-yyy-zzz/bin/xxe shell script and you'll get something as >> functional as XMLEditor.app. > > Unfortunately OSX does not execute shell scripts by default (at least > 10.4.5). So I cannot use that version unless I use Terminal anyways. > >> >>> (I do not know If i am allowed to redistribute my JavaApplicationStub. >>> If so, I'd glady donate it for inclusion in future XXE versions) >> >> Oh yes! I have desperately searched where to find a Universal Binary >> JavaApplicationStub with no results. Please send me >> (mailto:hussein at xmlmind.com) the Universal Binary JavaApplicationStub >> you used. (JavaApplicationStub is, of course, a redistributable.) > > It is attached. >> >> PS: We'll probably not purchase an Intel-powered Mac before several >> months. > > I'd be happy to test any version on OS X / intel.
