[Wxlua-users] Re: wxMac - packaging details

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

Anders F Björklund ha scritto:
> Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> 
>>> 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...
> 
> Normally you wrap a PKG inside a DMG, if you need to
> get permission or install in "invisible" directories
> (the Finder hides /usr/local and the rest from the user)
> 
> For wxLua, we're not really going to distribute the
> bin and lib and so on to the "end user", so we can
> let users wanting those use source or DarwinPorts/Fink ?
> 
> Thus, we won't require PKG in this project. Right you are.
ok

> 
> Making a DMG is pretty simple, just proprietary to Apple:
> hdiutil create -srcfolder wxLua -fs HFS+ -format UDZO -ov wxLua.dmg
> hdiutil internet-enable -yes -quiet wxLua.dmg
maybe these cmds should go into a script in build\macbundle ?


> 
>>> (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...
> 
> huh ?
> I was just talking about a .spec file, for building RPMS yourself ?
> You don't even have to distribute SRPMS, as one can use the tarball.
> 
> Nothing evil about that, I like RPM.
ah, ok; I strongly associate RPM with the idea of binaries, maybe 
because I've never used SRPM... ;)


> Binary RPMS, however: Oh dear... :-)
:)

Francesco