[Wxlua-users] Re: wxMac - packaging details

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Anders F Björklund ha scritto:
> Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> 
>> So, we just need to add to build\macbundle the Info.plist and maybe a 
>> simple script which calls the utilities to actually build the package, 
>> isn't it?
>>
>> I can then add Info.plist to configure list of files to create. It 
>> won't be used by Unix installations but only by Mac ones...
> 
> Something like that, yes...
> 
> Just that we'll need one such Info.plist for all three apps,
> or do a common template for all and generate the specifics ?
> (I guess the version numbers of them would follow wxLua's ?)
I would keep them separed as they look like short XML files.
And yes, the versioning will be the same.

> 
> For an example of what it looks like, you can view:
> http://www.algonet.se/~afb/wx/CodeBlocks.Info.plist
> It's missing the bindings to certain filetypes, though.
Seems not too complicated - let me know if you can send me these file 
within today so that they could be included in the source package.

> 
> Building the app can be a small shell script (or Makefile)
sure - just choose the one you prefer.

> I don't actually think we'll even need an Installer PKG...
this gives me some other conceptual problem: Installer PKG was not 
mentioned in point 1) or 2)... I thought we were going to release a .dmg...

> (better to do an RPM spec file in that case, and use RPM ?)
RPM is evil as it is distro- and version-distro- specific.
That's why I'm using autopackage for Linux binary package.
So I'd prefer to avoid it...

Francesco