installer made by Rev...

[Thierry]

Thanks Richard, Mark,...

well, I knew a bundle is a folder.
I was hoping of an unrevealed feature to avoid scanning the bundle  
folder,
and dealing with each kind of files inside....

So, in the same vein you run a shell command to set exe bit,
i'm using this shell command for all the process :
      get shell(  "tar xf compressedfile")

and files dates,  files permissions are all respected.....

Hope all those Mac from 10.4 have /usr/bin/tar !

Thierry

>> I'm finishing an installer in Rev which is a basic stack in fact.
>> After asking some parameters, it will check on the web for versions,
>> and should dowload few files.
>> Those files were compressed before.
>> Rev can download them,
>> decompress them and save them on the user's disk.
>> So far so good.
>> But, I have a external.bundle to download too,
>> and I'm stuck on how to compress,
>> zip or package it
>> so the stack installer can download it  and save it.
>> I've even tried the gzip/gunzip command line tool
>> which doesn't work either :-(
>> Any clever clue ?
>> It will be good to be done in Rev only.
>
> I've become increasingly annoyed with the build process using any  
> other installer maker, so I make my own in Rev too. Freedom +  
> convenience!
>
> As Mark S. noted, an OSX bundle is just a folder, so you can store  
> its parts however you would store any other folder.  My installer  
> walks through the bundle keep track of folders, and tucking the  
> data files and folder references into custom props gzipped at build  
> time, spitting them out into created directories at install time.
>
> When you spit out the Mac executable, remember that you'll need to  
> set its executable bit -- Mark Waddingham was kind enough to share  
> this with me:
>
>   get shell("chmod ugo+x" && quote & tDest & quote)
>
> ...where tDest is the path to the executable inside *.app/Contents/ 
> MacOS/
>