New engine...

[Pierre Sahores]

Le 16 avr. 04, à 10:45, Klaus Major a écrit :

> Hi Monte,
>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> looks like there are some new engines on the RR ftp-server...
>>> The Mac OS X version is called: Revolution.app.dir.gz
>>> Can anyone give me a small hint on how to decompress it correctly
>>> and usable?
>>> I end up with a document called "Revolution.app.dir"...
>>> (When using Stuffit...)
>>> If i remove all the suffixes and put the engine (? probably not yet) 
>>> in
>>> the right place:
>>> /Contents/MacOS/Revolution
>>> nothing happens when doubleclicking the app...
>> Hi
>>
>> The engines directory on the FTP server is for engine downloads in the
>> standalone builder. Mark and I designed a new system that uses the 
>> custom
>> revcompress and revdecompress commands to make it simpler to download
>> application bundles an MacOS engines with resource forks. These 
>> commands are
>> undocumented and in the revBackScript button. If there's interest in 
>> us
>> documenting them they can be moved to the revCommon button for the 
>> next
>> release. The commands use custom properties of stacks to archive 
>> directories
>> and single files and maintain resource forks and file types.
>
> This is very interesting and yes, i would like to see it in the 
> revCommon button...
>
> BUT, it still does not work when i "revDecompress" that file, simply 
> won't launch!!!
>
>
> Couple o'minutes later:
>
> The actual engine in that new "revdecompressed" app
> "/Contents/MacOS/Revolution" does NOT have an icon, is just a 
> "document" and
> no "Unix executable file" in the finder-info, as it should be!
>
> Very strange, since the icons etc... are present?

For what i seen in opening it in BBedit and in the current Rev 2.2 
issue, the file Revolution.app.dir (renamed to Revolution.rev) is seen 
by both as a rev's stack ...

>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Monte
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> www.major-k.de
>
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