Bundle Shmundle: more "Bad Boy" mouthings.

[Jan Schenkel]

--- On Thu, 9/2/10, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/03/2010 01:56 AM, J. Landman
> Gay wrote:
> > On 9/2/10 10:35 AM, Richmond wrote:
> > 
> >> * HOWEVER; I got ever-so-slightly side-tracked
> when I found that a Mac
> >> Universal
> >> standalone constructed with RunRev Studio 4.0
> (linux) would not run on a
> >> Mac.
> > 
> > There was a discussion about this a while back. The
> same thing also occurs when building for Mac on Windows
> machines. Basically, you need to set the executable bit,
> which you can only do on a Mac if I remember right. Your
> build will run once you do that.
> > 
> 
> So, if I read you correctly, anybody who wants to spin off
> a Mac standalone has to have access to
> a Mac machine to:
> 
> 1. Set the executable bit?  [ Pass me the
> Alka-Seltzer; how does one do that? ]
> 
>       "which you can only do on a Mac if I
> remember right"  not good.
> 
> 2. Build Mac standalones?
> 
> We've been Steved, perhaps?
> 
> That is rather bad news as not everybody has the sort of
> wherewithall that they can have a Mac sitting
> ready for this.
> 

In my experience, if you zip it up on Windows before you move it to the Mac, the Finder will add the missing executable flag as it unpacks the archive.
And if I copy it from my Win2K machine to a shared folder on my iMac (shared via Windows Sharing - aka SMB), the .app is also executable.
Perhaps what perople are experiencing is that if you copy it via a USB stick, unzipped, the Finder doesn't do this?

Jan Schenkel.
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