> How does this compare to the appassembler plugin? > > It sounds to me that it could be just another platform for the > appassembler to support.
Hi Trygve, Without knowing the intimate details of the appassembler implementation, I'd say it's not obvious how this would fit into the appassembler. (OS X is Unix/BSD based, so using the Unix platform of appassembler works fine.) Application Bundles on OS X are special directories (marked as applications in the filesystem). The Finder will present these directories as a single application file, hiding the contents of the package from the user. This is the preferred way of distributing applications on OS X. Apple's documentation: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java14Development/03-JavaDeployment/JavaDeployment.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001885-208447-TPXREF120 My gut feeling is that an Application Bundle is conceptually quite different from Linux/Windows startup scripts and that it would be cleaner to keep it as a separate plugin. But if you guys think it's a good idea to merge it into appassembler and you know how to to that, I'm not at all opposed to it. Eirik. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
