[IronPython] Silverlight 2 and app.xap layout

[Michael Foord]

Srivatsn Narayanan wrote:
> I was running into the same issue but you can specifically ask Chiron to zip the app folder by doing:
> Chiron /d:app /z:app.xap. The /z switch adds the dlr assemblies as well. This xap runs from cassini.
>   

Ah great. So in this case it is my fault! (And I'm just being a 
complainer...)

Thanks!

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 6:02 PM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: [IronPython] Silverlight 2 and app.xap layout
>
> Hello all,
>
> An issue with chiron and the directory layout you need to create an
> 'app.xap'.
>
> (Note - I am doing this on a machine without the SDK or Visual Studio
> installed so that I can test on a machine similar to the ones I will use
> the Silverlight apps from.)
>
> In order for chiron to serve an application from the filesystem you need
> to create an
> 'app' subdirectory and place your Python files (etc) in this.
>
> If you then run 'chiron /x:app.xap' on this folder it creates a zip file
> with the same directory structure - but Silverlight is then *unable* to
> use the resulting app.xap (it fails with a error message 'the
> application must have an entry point app.*' - it is unable to find
> app.py from the app subdirectory).
>
> If you copy the files into a flat directory structure then chiron will
> generate an app.xap that Silverlight can use - but chiron is *unable* to
> serve the application from this folder *until* you
> have generated app.xap.
>
> This means that you cannot use the same folder layout for testing your
> apps and for creating them...
>
> Michael
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