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Re: Installers for Java Apps



Bob Hays wrote:

>Actually, there used to be such a task for Mac systems.  The jar file is
>osxant.jar, and the tasks are DmgTask and DmgFileSet.  Unfortunately they
>stopped working somewhere along the way (it was nice to have all that
>automated in one Ant build script).
>
>If anyone finds a working solution for making DMG files from Ant please post
>to this list or send me a quick email.

The Ant task probably used the 'hdiutil' command.  See 'man hdiutil' in
Terminal.

You might also try decompiling the now-broken Ant-task's code, and see if
you can find out what it does.  Or at least unjar the classes and run the
'strings' command on them to see if hdiutil is used.

Is any of this worth doing?  It depends.  The tradeoff, of course, is time
spent engineering an automated solution vs. incremental time costs of doing
it manually, plus the cost of manually-induced errors.

  -- GG



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