OS X standalones: 2 questions

Alex Rice alex at mindlube.com
Wed Sep 3 18:03:01 EDT 2003


On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 04:40  PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> I have noticed an odd tendency for the standalone builder to insert 
> two copies of the engine in OS X builds. One copy is directly inside 
> the app bundle, and the second copy is in app/Contents/MacOS/. 
> Deleting the one just inside the app bundle doesn't seem to hurt 
> anything and will halve the size of the build.
>
> I haven't quite got it nailed down yet, but I think it may have 
> something to do with building a new standalone on top of an existing 
> one (that is, the new one replaces the old one on disk.) If someone 
> can verify that, we could bugzilla it.

I'm not seeing that. There is 1 "Revolution" file in the app bundle, 
and it's 4.2MB.

But thanks for the warning I'll keep an eye out for what you describe 
if my app suddenly jumps to 8 or 10 MB.

Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com

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