Re: [udig-devel] A second Release candidate (and now the third)

[William K <woklist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

More tinkering.

I gave Apple's Jar Bundler a try.  That's what is used to make a  
generic jar into a Mac application bundle, and uses an included  
executable that decides which version of java to use and passes the  
options to it.  That gave me a runable bundle (with a little extra  
tweaking).  The menus are messed up, tho.  More poking around in the  
Apple Java-dev list tells me that Eclipse's SWT needs either java_swt  
as the executable (not the one included in Jar Bundler), or use  
Export in the Eclipse SDK.

The export is supposed to create a correct app bundle, including the  
executable that picks the right JavaVM to use.  It wasn't clear if a  
Mac app bundle could be exported from Eclipse on another platform.   
Somehow the app bundle that's distributed now is not correct (I even  
found a sample Info.plist from Eclipse that was correct and doesn't  
match at all what's in udig now).  That was obvious from the start  
since all the jar files and support should be inside the bundle.

I think my desire to see uDig running smoothly on Mac OS X may take  
me into Eclipse.  Unless a more knowledgable Mac/Java user can do  
something with this.  Oh heck, I'll probably poke at it more anyways  
until (and if) someone works it out.


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