Subject: Re: How to build the Aiksaurus plugin?
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 04:53:25 CDT
According to F J Franklin <F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk>:
> > Did you do this from scratch or did you copy over what I made for MacOS X
> > (even though I did not include data files).
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean to take credit for your work.
> I have used AbiWord.icns, Info.plist and PkgInfo from
> abi/src/wp/main/mac/bundle
I just wanted to know whether I would have interest in digging in what you
made to check with my stuff or not. I don't mind you to take it. After it is
Free software :-)
> Originally I was putting the AbiSuite subdirectories in
> XAbiword.app/Contents/Resources, but after yesterday's talk on plugins I
> have decided to have an AbiSuite folder which contains the AbiSuite
> subdirectories and the XAbiWord.app bundle - which makes it a lot simpler
> to add plugins, dictionaries, etc. Then it's just a case of copying the
> folder to /Applications (or wherever) and dragging Abi the Ant to the
> Launcher...
I'm not sure it is the correct way to go. Keepind the AbiSuite directory
inside the application bundle is IMHO what we should do, and we should build
plug-ins as bundles too that we throw either in the application bundle or in
some user location like ~/Library/AbiSuite
> The tricky bit is in the wrapper scripts. I have a binary executable which
> does a chdir () to /.../XAbiWord.app/Contents and then calls a modified
> version of the usual AbiWord wrapper via execve (), and the AbiWord
> wrapper sets ABISUITE_HOME=../.. etc.
I'm not sure to know how to do this properly. Currently the Mac port does NOT
care for the ABISUITE_HOME dir. IMHO it will find it using bundle services.
Hub
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