[Qt-interest] how to copy any app bundle on MacOS from one location to the other using QT methods?

Kustaa Nyholm Kustaa.Nyholm at planmeca.com
Tue May 18 15:16:11 CEST 2010


 
> An application bundle under Mac OS X is nothing more than a directory ending
> with ".app" extension

That is not quite correct, IIRC, there is more to it than .app extension. I
don't recall the details but some years ago is used in Java ant copy task
to create an application bundle and while the directory structure was
correct as far as I could tell, Finder did not recognize it as a proper
bundle. A little googling exposes that there is something like a bundle bit
and that Finder uses several strategies in identifying bundles. I'm no
expert on this so I can't realy advice on the details but I'm pretty sure
that n application bundle IS LITTLE MORE thand a a directory ending
with ".app" extension.

nr Kusti





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