Organizing an Xcode template and frameworks for plugin development kit
Organizing an Xcode template and frameworks for plugin development kit
- Subject: Organizing an Xcode template and frameworks for plugin development kit
- From: Rick Hoge <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:41:55 -0400
I am trying to put together a plugin developers kit for our Cocoa
application. The kit would consist of an Xcode template and a couple
of frameworks. In our app plugins are subclassed from a base class
that is provided in one of the frameworks. Building a plugin target
produces a loadable bundle that is discovered automatically by the app
at launch time if installed in the correct location.
I'm trying to figure out the correct way to ship these components - the
obvious thing would be to wrap them in an installer package and put the
Xcode template under ~/Library/Application Support/Apple/Developer
Tools/Project Templates/MyApp/MyAppPlugin/ - what I'm not sure about
is how exactly to install the framework bundles. The Apple docs give a
good overview of were to put the headers and framework API
documentation, but I'm not sure about the appropriate install location.
Possible options seem to be:
1) have the plugin projects point to the frameworks that are shipped
anyway inside the bundle of the main application
2) include copies of the frameworks (which aren't huge) inside the
Xcode template
3) when the user/developer runs the installer for the Xcode template
the frameworks get installed somewhere under ~/Library/ or /Library/
and the template is configured to look there
If anyone could comment on the relative merits of these options or
other better options I'd be very grateful!
Rick Hoge
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden