Re: Mac OS X: Do we really need an installer??? Tiger & Spotlight

--- Eric Hoch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Shaun, 
> Am Mon, 2 May 2005 16:02:15 +0100 (BST), schrieb
> Shaun McDonald:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have installed Eric's 1.9.93 build of OpenOffice
> > (his one is easiest to download).
> 
> Eric B. or mine Eric H. ? 

ebachard

> 
> > As far as I can see
> > the only special things that the installer does is
> > check that X11 is installed, check that the
> version of
> > the OS is 1.3 or greater, and finally open the
> > installed file.
> 
> No that's not quite right, at least for my, Eric H.,
> build. 
> Currently I have 17, in words seventeen, single
> packages at the end 
> of the OOo build process and which Mac User wants to
> install 17 
> packages? So Florian Heckl created a metapackage
> shell script that 
> wraps those 17 packages into one Metapackage and
> this metapackage 
> is the one to be installed. 

If I remember correctly there was only one package. Do
any of the induvidual packages of your build do
anything special? That is what I am trying to get at.

> 
> As for the rest you're right. 
> 
> I don't know how Eric B packs his builds and how
> Maho does. Last 
> time I used a build from Pavel he had only tar.gz
> the 17 packages, 
> which is the worst possible solution for Mac Users. 
> 
> One problem to be solved is that we need to get the
> package process 
> into the official build process. Meaning that in the
> end after your 
> build is finished you find the packed OOo in the
> install folder of 
> instsetoo_native/unxmacxp.pro and needn't do a
> repacking as it 
> currently is necessary for 1.1.x. 
> 
> > Considering this, I reckon that OpenOffice for Mac
> OS
> > X does not require an installer. All that needs to
> be
> > done is to OpenOffice on to a disk image with
> > something similar to Gimp.app.
> 
> Florian Heckl is currently working on such a
> package. A few days 
> ago we got noticed that OpenOffice.org 2.app exists.
> The author of 
> the app himself told this list about this app and a
> few hours 
> before Eric B. sent me an Email with exactly this
> app mentioned and 
> the idea of creating such an app or better ask the
> author of the 
> app if we can use it for official OOo. 
> 
> > I don't know if there
> > is a command line option for creating a disk
> image.
> > The utility Disk Utility does allow for the
> creation
> > of disk Images. A search for "disk image command
> line
> > mac os x" (without quotes) finds a few useful
> things
> > for creating disk images through the command line.
> > 
> > As I was expecting Tiger at the end of last week,
> I
> > done a backup onto DVD, one of the things was the
> > OpenOffice 1.9.93 folder. I did manage to run
> > OpenOffice direct from the DVD, though it was
> slow!
> > This supports what I said above. It may be
> possible
> > that the binary generated in 10.3.9 will work in
> 10.4,
> > just there are some compiler issues.
> 
> Yes. Florian Heckl currently tries to build OOo
> 1.9.x using gcc 4.0 
> and gcc 3.3 and Tiger. 
> 
> We hadn't had a Tiger before Friday. So please be
> patient here. We 
> hope to get out Tiger ready binaries as soon as
> possibel but first 
> everybody needs Tiger and a chance to compile OOo
> for Tiger and a 
> chance to do bugfixes were needed. Next time we hope
> that someone 
> is in WWDC and gets forthcomming Mac OS X
> Developerversions so that 
> we can catch up earlier with developing for the
> latest Mac OS X. 
> 
> 
> > The OOoStart application, whether in the current
> form
> > or in the form used by Gimp and proposed by
> someone
> > else a few days back on the list; will need
> something
> > like NeoLight or
> >
>
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=48356
> > to have Tiger compatibility.
> 
> 
> Cool. Yes. I guess we need a spotlight plugin. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Eric Hoch
> 
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