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Re: How to make an application non-executable?
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Re: How to make an application non-executable?


  • Subject: Re: How to make an application non-executable?
  • From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:05:35 -0400

on 2004-07-16 4:36 PM, Mike Shields at email@hidden wrote:

> I like this idea the best. I'd compress it with gzip and then when you
> install it, uncompress. If it's a bundle, add in tar'ing the bundle
> first. This way you don't have a much of a space penalty for the setup
> app to contain the master app and it'll prevent anything from trying to
> launch it. Until you install it, it'll just be another "resource" in
> the setup app.

Sounds good to me. Is it easy to do? NSTask to run the command line tools? I
haven't tried that sort of thing yet.

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