Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

[Mark Smith]

Having poked around the web (apple's developer site, and various non- 
apple programming sites), it seems that neither the file-extension,  
the bundle-bit (which is found in the file-system's db, as far as I  
can undrstand) nor the presence of a /contents/pkgInfo etc,  provide  
a completely reliable guide to the 'packageness' of a directory.  
Hence the OS's multiplicity of methods for determining it, and why I  
suspect a pure transcript solution may not be possible.

Using the bash 'ls' command with the '-F' option (to put a "/" at the  
end of each item that's a directory) lists any package as a  
directory, so is consistent with Rev's 'the files'.

Best,

Mark


On 8 Dec 2007, at 17:10, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Trevor DeVore wrote:
>> The Finder uses the following criteria to determine if something  
>> is a  package:
>> * The directory has a known   
>> extension: .app, .bundle, .framework, .plugin, .kext, and so on.
>> * The directory has its bundle bit set.
>> * The directory has a known structure type indicating it is a  
>> modern  or versioned bundle.
>
> How does one set a file's bundle bit in a post-ResEdit world?
>
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