[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Re: SWIG for Macintosh and Tcl (1st attempt)

[David Beazley]

Steven D. Majewski writes:
 > 
 > 
 > Be careful how you unpack.
 > 
 > Using Stuffit Expander on the tar.gz file, the Mac project file seq.hqx is
 > corrupted -- probably has the wrong EOLs -- and it crashes my Mac trying 
 > to unstuff it. 
 > 
Hmmm.   I didn't experience this when I tested it, but I don't think I had any
EOL translation enabled.  This is definitely a problem.

 > Using Mac gzip & Mac tar, I am able to unbin hex and extract the project
 > files, but the .ps.gz files in the Doc directory are corrupt ( probably 
 > from the Unix->Mac EOL translation done to fix the first problem. 
 > 
 > 
 > Looks like you've got to do a double unstuff to get it ALL properly
 > translated. 
 > 
 > 
 > [ David -- you might consider using Stuffit or something Mac native for 
 >   the final finished release! ] 

Do you think it would be preferable to pack the entire distribution up as
a sea.hqx file?   I'm certainly open to finding the best approach.

Cheers,

Dave


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