.xo bundles (was Re: #1803 HIGH Trial-2: Add Chat activity to builds)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Jul 3 17:47:18 EDT 2007


> Comment (by J5):
>
>  Replying to [comment:4 bert]:
>> Replying to [comment:3 J5]:
>>> This was generated incorrectly.  First the version should be -9  
>>> second
>  the activity should be Chat-9.xo.  It looks like it was simply  
> zipped up
>  instead of using the packaging tools.
>>
>> Not sure what else is wrong, but simply zipping up is surely as  
>> valid as
>  using whatever tools there are, right?
>
>  No, right now it works but in the future there is no guarantee as  
> we may
>  do post processing. Also python setup.py dist creates a clean package
>  without any of the stray development files (such as MacOS resource  
> files)
>  getting packaged up.

Such garbage should not be included obviously. But I'd much prefer if  
bundles stay simple zip files without added magic. What kind of "post  
processing" do you imagine that could not be easily done manually?

- Bert -





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