How Do You Guys Manage Development/Installation of Complex Applescript Projects?
How Do You Guys Manage Development/Installation of Complex Applescript Projects?
- Subject: How Do You Guys Manage Development/Installation of Complex Applescript Projects?
- From: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:17:08 -0500
I have a project consisting of several scripts, data files, etc. which will be installed in different places on a target machine. I'm looking for a simple, or at least not tediously complex way to package everything up and install it on an arbitrary computer. I know I can put everything in a Script Application bundle but that makes it tedious for development testing since everything is inconveniently hidden away inside the bundle and you have to use "open Contents of" in the Finder and you can't save directly into it.
If I don't package everything up into a bundle while developing, I have to bundle it all up when I am done and then test the bundle, jumping back and forth between the bundled version and the unbundled version.
I know can keep everything I need in a single folder while developing and then move that folder to the target machine along with an installer script to create files in other locations on the target machine. But there is a lot of "junk" in the development folder that I don't want to move to every target machine. For example Applescript Reference Guides, Debug and Test Routines, Project Tracking info, etc. I guess I can write a "make package" script to make a clean folder but that doesn't seem like a very general solution.
I've never done software development for a living, much less Applescript software development. I'd be very interested in how some of you "professionals", or even non-professionals approach this problem i.e. developing and testing in Environment A and then running the completed project in Environment B without a lot of manual, custom tinkering.
Steve
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OS X 10.6.8, AppleScript 2.1.2
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