October 2007 - Installer-dev

re: software registration/payment/installation libraries
by Chris Heimark 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

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Distribution script problem
by Atticus Gifford 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com function checkLeopardOrHigher() { var result = false; try { result = my.target.systemVersion.ProductVersion >= '10.5'; } catch (e) {} return result; } "Error Reading Package There was an error while evaluating JavaScript for the package." Thanks, Atticus Gifford _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… I have a distribution installer that is giving me some trouble. I have three packages, two of which I want selected all the time. I'd only like to display (and select) the third package in the customize window on 10.5 and higher. I created a simple script in my global scripts like so: and then for each of start_selected, start_enabled and start_visible I set the value to "checkLeopardOrHigher()". This works fine on my machine and another test machine, but some of my testers have gotten an error: One user was on 10.4 and one was on 10.5. I got the same error earlier when I had a had a syntax error in my script. Does anyone have an idea what I might be doing wrong? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: software registration/payment/installation libraries
by Shane Dixon 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

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software registration/payment/installation libraries
by Chris Heimark 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi: Thanks. Chris _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Does anyone have an URL to sites which compare/contrast different software payment/registration services? (I am looking specifically for Mac support.) The most dominant choice seems to be esellerate. Does anyone have recent experience with these guys OR anyone else they would recommend? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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RE: problem with copying app bundle
by Aaron London 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

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Re[2]: problem with copying app bundle
by Peter Mulholland 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello bert, Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 3:56:49 PM, you wrote: > OK... I figured out that I should be using CpMac from > /Developer/Tools to copy app bundles. I found this out while reading about cp at > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Art… This is only really necessary if some of your files rely on the resources fork. Basically, files on a HFS+ file system have two parts, the data fork and the resource fork. The data fork is the normal file data as you would expect - but extra data can be stored in the resource fork. Traditionally MacOS stored important stuff here, but more recently, the resource fork is not used much. > coming from Win XP and Linux, I have a really hard time > understanding how copying an application can break it so badly that > it starts to crash ... can anyone shed some light on this? If you want to zip from the console, make sure you use the -y option to preserve symlinks - otherwise zip will follow them and create havoc. -- Best regards, Peter mailto:darkmatter@blueyonder.co.uk _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: problem with copying app bundle
by Gary Oberbrunner 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) bert wrote: > OK... I figured out that I should be using CpMac from /Developer/Tools > to copy app bundles. I found this out while reading about cp at > > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Art… > > coming from Win XP and Linux, I have a really hard time understanding > how copying an application can break it so badly that it starts to crash > ... can anyone shed some light on this? Most likely you have resource forks in there somewhere. Resource forks are bad news these days, and naturally won't survive any kind of copying to Windows unless you use pax or dmg or some other archiver. Do this: find . -type f -exec ls {}/rsrc \; and look for a size greater than zero. Of course if your resources are missing, your app is likely to crash. -- Gary Oberbrunner _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: problem with copying app bundle
by bert 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

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Re: problem with copying app bundle
by bert 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

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Re: problem with copying app bundle
by Peter Mulholland 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello bert, Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 2:30:39 PM, you wrote: > Hi all > I have been writing some packaging and build scripts here for one > of our software applications and I've noticed something weird. > When I build an application bundle on my mac osx 10.4.10 ibook G4 > and I copy the app bundle to our linux server over SMB, and then > copy the bundle back to the ibook, and try to run it, it crashes. > I double checked that the bundle runs fine so something must go > wrong when I copy it to the linux server and then copy it back. Any ideas ? Over SMB, any symlinks that would be inside the app bundle (more specifically, inside any frameworks used) would break. It is best to zip your app first. I've had this when I've mistakenly backed up .framework and such files to my Windows machine, forgetting that the symlinks etc won't be preserved correctly. -- Best regards, Peter mailto:darkmatter@blueyonder.co.uk _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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