Re: [Bitpim-devel] Mac OS X User & Dev page

[Alan P. <api...@ma...>]

Cool. That's a great starting point. I'll look into that a bit. I have 
an old Mac OS X developer kit (my license ran out) but hopefully it's 
enough to build an installer.

Thanks,
Alan



On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 11:59  AM, Roger Binns wrote:

>> As for the installer, I would like to have a discussion on this a bit.
>> Particularly, should the goal be to create a monolithic installer for
>> all of the pieces I describe on the site? If so, is it even legal 
>> since
>> the pieces come from so many places?
>
> I would prefer that it looks, feels and installs like a normal
> Mac application.  This pretty much means it should be monolithic
> with no external dependencies.
>
> There should be no legal issues.  See the acknowledgements at the 
> bottom
> of http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/readme.html
>
> For Windows, I use py2exe to generate the base runtime code.  The 
> output
> is an executable with all the Python files embedded and the Python DLL
> seperately.  The executable basically loads the Python DLL and sets 
> itself
> up on the import path.  py2exe also finds all other dependent DLLs such
> as the ones used for wxWindows and wxPython.
>
> Here is a directory listing:
>
> .:
> PyWinTypes22.dll*  bitpim.exe*   python22.dll*  win32event.pyd*  
> wxmsw24h.dll*
> _sre.pyd*          gridc.pyd*    resources/     win32file.pyd*
> _winreg.pyd*       select.pyd*    wxc.pyd*
>
> ./resources:
> unknown.png
>
> (The resources subdirectory contains various toolbar bitmaps etc. but 
> I have only
> made unknown so far).
>
> I then use InnoSetup to turn this into a single binary which is the 
> installer.
>
> On Linux I plan for two different installers.  One will be pure RPM 
> and will
> have dependencies etc.  The other will be monolithic based on above.  
> The only
> program I have found that works on Linux to help is McMillan installer
> http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/install5_ann.html
>
> Roger
>
>
>
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