Re: [udig-devel] A second Release candidate

[William K <woklist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I don't know a whole lot about Java (and that's pretty old what  
I do know).  I may be able to figure out some Mac OS X Java app  
packaging stuff if I can focus on it enough (I'm a bit overloaded  
right now).

I did look a bit at Apple's Java developer docs just now (trying to  
figure out if there was a simple way to get it running with the RC  
release udig I have).  It looks like the Main class, ClassPath,  
working directory, java command arguments, -D options, and VM options  
can all be specified in the Info.plist of the udig.app package.  With  
that and the default JAVAROOT inside the package I might be able to  
mash this into something that works.

I have another Mac OS X Java application that I use a lot that I can  
use as an example (Azureus bittorent client).

One thing that worries me is the eclipse startup.jar - is that where  
main would be, or is that Eclipse's way of accomplishing the same as  
Apple's Info.plist?

Where does JAVA_HOME come into this (if at all)?  Or it may be taken  
care of by the Java version setting of the Info.plist.


On Aug 9, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> William,
> Is there any chance you could volunteer to help with OS/X  
> packaging?  Our in-house staff don't have a Mac handy to do that  
> kind of work on, so it will be hard to do a release cleanly.   
> Basically I think we'll need all the supporting files and a  
> cookbook on how to stuff things into the right places.  Done right,  
> it could be very swish.
> Paul

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