Hello, I noticed that there is no convenient installer package for Mac OS X. The various GUI programs that use FLAC seem to only have flac 1.1.0, so there is no simple way for a non-developer to install flac 1.1.1, other than manually placing the various files where they belong.
So, I have created FLAC-1.1.1.pkg.tar.gz, but I would like your help in making it more complete. This package includes the pertinent files from flac-1.1.1-osx-ppc.tar.gz, but without the AUTHORS and other attribution files. I don't know where to install the attribution files, so I think it would be best to include that information in the Installer UI itself. If anyone would like to suggest the appropriate text (possibly a subset of the AUTHORS file, or even the whole file), then I will create another package with proper attributions in it. Download from http://sounds.wa.com/software/FLAC-1.1.1.pkg.tar.gz Hopefully, this can be placed on another server with higher bandwidth after I have a final version. I have only tested this package once. On my machine, with Opener.app installed, double-clicking any .tar.gz file will automatically uncompress, untar, and open the resulting file (which in this case is an installer package). Other issues: 1) It's obvious that flac and metaflac belong in /usr/local/bin/ and flac.1 and metaflac.1 belong in /usr/local/man/man1/, however I am a little worried about placing the /html/ directory in /usr/local/share/doc/html/ because it seems like it might conflict with other Unix tools installed there. When manually installing flac 1.1.0, I just created a subdirectory named /usr/local/share/doc/html/flac-1.1.0/ and moved the flac files there. Any Unix folks out there know what the standard should be for placing files in /usr/local/share/doc/html/ such that they do not conflict? 2) Because flac-1.1.1-osx-ppc.tar.gz has static linked binaries only, I decided to do the same in FLAC-1.1.1.pkg.tar.gz, however there is some benefit to having a more extensive Installer package for Mac OS X which includes the FLAC and FLAC++ libraries. That Installer package could easily install the dynamically linked binaries since the libraries will be installed at the same time. I know how to build all of this, but I am asking for feedback on whether such a package would be useful. I've been distributing free programs for Mac OS X which use the FLAC library, and I've had to instuct my users on how to manually install the FLAC library. I have incentive to put together a more extensive package to make distribution of my software a little easier (I'll just tell users to install the FLAC package before my app). Any idea what to call this? How about "FLAC+lib-1.1.1.pkg.tar.gz"? Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-dev
