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Re: [platform-swt-dev] OS/X: install fails in interesting way.
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Log out and log back in again. The process magically makes things appear in
the Package Contents.
On 7/25/02 6:56 PM, "Tom Ritchford" <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I built a much earlier version of Eclipse successfully
> but this time I have an interesting issue:
>
>
>> - Unpack the archive, mount the disk image and copy its contents into
>> a folder 'Eclipse 2.0' on your hard disk
>
> [snip]
>
>> - Open the context menu on the aplication 'Eclipse 2.0' and select
>> 'Show Package Contents': the application opens as a folder (the 'bundle').
>>
>> - Drill down to 'Contents/Resources/Java' and copy the contents of
>> the previously opened folder 'eclipse' into the folder 'Java'
>
> What is interesting here is that when I open the copy of
> Eclipse 2.0 on the hard drive and look at "Package Contents"
> I see only an empty folder.
>
> BUT if I open the original "Package Contents" of the Eclipse 2.0
> on the disk image, I can see all sorts of stuff.
>
> Somehow my copy fails silently.
>
>
> Mysteriously, I have the same phenomenon with the
> July 3 and 11 releases and I have tried downloading
> them afresh, exactly the same issue: the download
> looks fine and I can look at Eclipse 2.0's Package
> Contents but if I copy to disk I get the same empty
> Package Contents.
>
>
> As I write this, I am concluding that somehow
> my iBook is in a state where it cannot copy
> packages from a disk image to a folder...
> why?!?
>
> Any hints gratefully received -- I'm the lone
> Mac developer here in an office full of Wintel
> machines....
>
> /t
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