Re: Some questions about the File Filters button.
Re: Some questions about the File Filters button.
- Subject: Re: Some questions about the File Filters button.
- From: "Jose R.C. Cruz" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:41:56 -0800
Thanks for the feedback. I think I found out why I am getting
confused. The test project I have has a CVS directory. That
directory still appears on the Contents listbox, even though I have
the pattern /CVS$ in my file filter list.
But when I built the installer package and viewed the Archive.bom
file, I find the CVS directory excluded from the file. That same
directory also does not appear when I use the package to install the
test project in a different volume.
Hence, the tool's visual feedback is a bit misleading.
-- JC
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On 14 Jan 2008, at 15:02:35, Jack Repenning wrote:
On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Jose R.C. Cruz wrote:
I want to know how the 'File Filters..." button on the Contents
panel of PackageMaker 3.0 is suppose to work. At first, it looks
like a way to exclude certain files from being added to the list.
But my attempts seem to show that this is not the case. Also, the
user guide for the new PackageMaker has nothing to say about this
button.
Can anyone provide me with some idea how it's suppose to work?
It's for a feature article that I am writing for MacTech.
I, too, think that's what it's for, and I use it (including some
filter values I added on my own steam), and it seems to be working
just fine for me. I believe I added these two:
/\.svn$
~$
The first is because my sources are kept in Subversion, which
splatters directories named ".svn" all over for its accounting. I
was getting some of these in my Package, but they disappeared when I
added this filter. The second is because I use Emacs to edit text
files, and it makes backups into files whose names end in ~. Again,
I was getting some copied into the package, but that stopped when I
added this filter.
Both those changes were actually made under Tiger and an earlier
PackageMaker, but I'm using the same .pmproj file (not even saving
it to a .pmdoc) to build now, on Leopard, and it still seems to be
working.
-==-
Jack Repenning
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Project Owner
SCPlugin
http://scplugin.tigris.org
"Subversion for the rest of OS X"
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