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

[Tim L. <tl...@ve...>]

Take a look at PackageMaker in the /Developer/Applications folder.  
Documentation is a problem, but if you Google search for "packagemaker 
tutorial" you'll find some links.  Also worth searching Apple's website 
for notes.

Tim

On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 09:05  AM, Alan Pinstein wrote:

> 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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