[racket-dev] Racket DMG improvements

The script please, that way if I get the first draft wrong, I won't be
asking you for a new one.

Ta

Stephen

On Thursday, July 21, 2011, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I can make the "rising lambda" image which I think would be a good
> background for this; what size would you like? (Or should I send a
> script that takes the size as a parameter and produces a png?)
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle
> <stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:
>> Sorry guys,
>>
>> I *will* test this(below) tonight.
>> - It doesn't do the fancy background image (a hidden .folder with a
>> .png), reposition and resize icons.
>> - It will suffice to know if Finder responds to applescript  'tell
>> application "Finder"' commands.
>> [It does create a alias, which is mostly the same an a softlink.]
>>
>> If anyone has a nice background image, that will save me making one.
>> (and a custom folder with the logo if you can do it?)
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # used example http://hayne.net/MacDev/Bash/make_alias
>> # thanks to authors
>> # Cameron Hayne (macdev at hayne.net), December 2003
>> # Paul Russell (prussell at sonic.net), May 2006
>>
>> /usr/bin/osascript > /dev/null <<EOT
>> tell application "Finder"
>>   set Src to POSIX file "/Applications" as text
>>   set Dest to POSIX file
>> "/Users/spdegabrielle/Documents/Development/make alias test" as text
>>   make new alias file to Src at folder Dest
>> end tell
>> EOT
>>
>> mv Applications "Drag into your Applications folder(here)"
>>
>> -----
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Robby Findler
>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>> I think that the dmg's size is proportional to the amount of data in
>>> it not the size it claims to have as a disk so we can probably just
>>> use 3 (or even maybe one).
>>>
>>> Robby
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, July 19, 2011, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>>>> Two days ago, Robby Findler wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Jakub Piotr Cłapa <jpc-ml at zenburn.net> wrote:
>>>>> > [1]:
>>>>> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/96882/how-do-i-create-a-nice-looking-dmg-for-mac-os-x-using-command-line-tools
>>>>>
>>>>> Mecki's answer here sounds just perfect for us, since we only really
>>>>> need one (or three, I suppose).
>>>>
>>>> IIUC, there are problems with the size -- IIUC, it won't grow which
>>>> means that it'll be bigger than needed, which also means that we need
>>>> a template DMG for each distribution kind which is 9 DMGs at the
>>>> moment ({PPC,Intel,x86_64} and three for each -- textual, normal,
>>>> full), and these DMGs need to live somewhere out of the repository.
>>>>
>>>> The AppleScript thing looks more robust, but I'm not sure if it can
>>>> work when I'l not logged into the machine properly.  It's sshing to
>>>> the packaging machine, which means that I don't have the Finder thing
>>>> running.  Anyone knows if this is a problem?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Two days ago, Robby Findler wrote:
>>>>> FWIW, I believe we build these things on a mac, so figuring out how to
>>>>> do that under linux is not necessary (for us).
>>>>
>>>> Yes.  I wouldn't rely on some emulation driver with these things...
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>           ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
>>>>                     http://barzilay.org/                   Maze is Life!
>>>>
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