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Re: [science-iwg] Bioclipse - Building Mac OS X installer
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Hi,
2. jan. 2013 kl. 08:08 skrev Philip Wenig <philip.wenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Ola,
>
> congrats to your latest Bioclipse release!
> I also recognized, that you offer a native *.dmg installer for Mac OS X. How has it been created? Is there a need to use the "hdiutil" directly on a Mac or is it also possible to create the installer e.g. under Linux?
Strictly speaking an installer for OS X are *.pkg files. These are only required when doing system modifications. *.dmg files on the other hand are simply disk images. There is a nice utility for creating these here: https://github.com/andreyvit/yoursway-create-dmg
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> Until now, I was able to create installers for Microsoft Windows but I didn't found a way to create a *.dmg for Mac OS X. Aside from the fact that Mac OS X and Java 7 is really painful. Would it be also possible to bundle a suitable Java 7 JRE with the distributed RCP? I have no experience with such things.
There is no problem with bundling a JRE with the application, however you'll have a problem when doing p2 update and also need to update the JRE on Windows(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=300812). If you're using Tycho there is a method described here http://codeiseasy.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/including-a-jre-in-a-tycho-build/
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> Cheers
> Philip
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