Re: [platform-swt-dev] OS/X: install fails in interesting way.

[Bob Koss <koss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Log out and log back in again. The process magically makes things appear in
the Package Contents.


On 7/25/02 6:56 PM, "Tom Ritchford" <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I built a much earlier version of Eclipse successfully
> but this time I have an interesting issue:
> 
> 
>> - Unpack the archive, mount the disk image and copy its contents into
>>    a folder 'Eclipse 2.0' on your hard disk
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> - Open the context menu on the aplication 'Eclipse 2.0' and select
>>    'Show Package Contents': the application opens as a folder (the 'bundle').
>> 
>> - Drill down to 'Contents/Resources/Java' and copy the contents of
>>    the previously opened folder 'eclipse' into the folder 'Java'
> 
> What is interesting here is that when I open the copy of
> Eclipse 2.0 on the hard drive and look at  "Package Contents"
> I see only an empty folder.
> 
> BUT if I open the original "Package Contents" of the Eclipse 2.0
> on the disk image, I can see all sorts of stuff.
> 
> Somehow my copy fails silently.
> 
> 
> Mysteriously, I have the same phenomenon with the
> July 3 and 11 releases and I have tried downloading
> them afresh, exactly the same issue:  the download
> looks fine and I can look at Eclipse 2.0's Package
> Contents but if I copy to disk I get the same empty
> Package Contents.
> 
> 
> As I write this, I am concluding that somehow
> my iBook is in a state where it cannot copy
> packages from a disk image to a folder...
> why?!?
> 
> Any hints gratefully received -- I'm the lone
> Mac developer here in an office full of Wintel
> machines....
> 
>    /t

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