Bundle Shmundle: more "Bad Boy" mouthings.

[Richmond]

On 09/03/2010 11:22 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
> --- On Thu, 9/2/10, Richmond<richmondmathewson at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On 09/03/2010 01:56 AM, J. Landman
>> Gay wrote:
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>>> On 9/2/10 10:35 AM, Richmond wrote:
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>>>> * 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?
>
>    

That ( about putting a Mac standalone into a zip file before 
transferring it to a Mac ) is extremely valuable information.

> Jan Schenkel.
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