Re: Creating Installer Package from Cocoa

FROM : Stéphane Sudre
DATE : Wed Jun 25 23:40:26 2008

On Jun 25, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Ryan Harter wrote:
>
> That sounds like exactly what I would like to do, but I'm not quite 
> sure how to copy the plist into the package.  I was looking at 
> using pax, but since I'm targeting Leopard, and developing on 
> Leopard, package maker keeps making metapackages, which pax doesn't 
> seem to understand, and I can't find out the equivelent of the old 
> "Show Package Contents."
>
> So far it seems o be the metapackages screwing me up.  Any thoughts?


2 thoughts:

- don't target Leopard in PackageMaker, it will create FLAT package 
(which are xar archives). Just target 10.4 or 10.3 depending on 
whether you prefer a distribution script or a good old plist.

- it's better to use ditto to create your .pax archive. pax can have 
some issues on Leopard and Tiger when it comes to ACL or other funny 
little things.