writing an OS X package from a custom property

Frank D. Engel, Jr. fde101 at fjrhome.net
Thu Aug 26 10:19:26 EDT 2004


> custom prop. Be aware that using zip compression might destroy the 
> data fork of

The resource fork, actually.  The data fork is what would be retained.


An alternative method to solving this problem would be to use array 
notation (custom property set ?) to read in and store each individual 
file in the bundle, rather than try to read it as a whole.  Bear in 
mind that this would mean recreating the bundle's internal structure -- 
directories and all -- when spitting it back out later on.

If you are distributing a standalone for OS X, it might be easier to 
simply copy the needed bundle into the resources folder of your 
standalone app bundle, then copy it back out when it needs to be 
installed.



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