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Organizing an Xcode template and frameworks for plugin development kit
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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




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