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Re: osascript - path to me


  • Subject: Re: osascript - path to me
  • From: "Tracy Vanderwerf" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 07:53:42 -0400
  • Organization: White Directory Publishers

I'm looking at this statement:

Instead, I have two 20kB scripts which are easy to deploy (I use Synk to
synchronise my scripts across 68 iMacs and 5 G4s) and one easy to handle
folder of resources at each location.

Does this mean there is a way to deploy scripts on a large group of macs without sitting at
each one and compiling them? If so, can you elaborate?

Thanks in advance.

TracyV

Timothy Bates wrote:

> Paul skinner wrote
> > Caveat: Any resources you put in the same folder as the application
> > might have been deleted by the user, or the app could have been pulled
> > out of it's distribution folder and put on the desktop. Bundles solve
> > these problems.
>
> I replied
> This is an absolute non-starter: no one is adopting bundles or ASS to solve
> simple day to day script problems.
>
> I would add two things. If people do want this ability (to create bundles
> then file that bug on Script Editor
>
> Secondly, this is really inefficient: often one wants to share resources -
> bundles prevent this.
>
> Here is a real scenario in which I am working now. I have two scripts
> li_peter and li_rep.
>
> They both expect to find 20 sound files in a "Resources" folder beside
> them. They use the same resources (about 20 MB worth).
>
> The bundles solution would give me two 20MB scripts: 40MB in total, which
> are hard to edit and maintain.
>
> Instead, I have two 20kB scripts which are easy to deploy (I use Synk to
> synchronise my scripts across 68 iMacs and 5 G4s) and one easy to handle
> folder of resources at each location.
>
> Bundles would turn this into 1.4 gigabytes of wasted bandwidth (and an hour
> of transfer time) each occasion I need to modify a simple script, even by 1
> or two lines.
>
> Thankfully I could afford to buy Script Debugger and that got me around this
> problem.
>
> Tim
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