[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app on UDF DVD

[James Kelly]

Hey Ned,

The app bundle in question is actually an installer for a much larger, more
complicated piece of software.  :)

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Jim


On 12/15/08 4:09 PM, "Ned Deily" <nad at acm.org> wrote:

> In article <C56BEF15.15BAB%JKelly at vectorworks.net>,
>  James Kelly <JKelly at vectorworks.net> wrote:
>> We usually place our py2app created app bundles on DVD using toast's hybrid
>> Mac and PC file-system setting.  This works pretty well for us.
>> Unfortunately we have a need to place the same app bundle on a UDF DVD.
>> While this works great in testing, it seems the
>> Bundle.app/Contents/Resources/lib/site.py sym-link that points to
>> Bundle.app/Contents/Resources/site.py is broken when burning with toast.
>> 
>> I haven't verified this myself, but I'm told when using an unspecified
>> Windows burning tool that the symlink is replaced with the actual file (so
>> there is an actual physical site.py in both of those directories.
>> 
>> As I said, this seems to work anyway in testing (in both cases, the case
>> where the sym-link is broken and where the file is replicated), but I'd like
>> to be a little more informed about what's going on here and how important
>> this sym-link is before I allow it to be distributed around.
>> 
>> So my questions are:
> 
> This doesn't directly answer your questions but perhaps a way to avoid
> any of these issues would be to encapsulate your app bundle in a disk
> image and place the disk image file on the DVD instead.   That's a
> fairly common way to distribute an OS X application in a
> filesystem-agnostic manner.  The disk image file may even be smaller
> than the app bundle.
> 
>    hdiutil create -srcfolder  /path/to/your_app.app your_app-.dmg