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This page describes how to prepare the Couchapp Installer for the Mac OS X operating system. (based on bazaar page)

Prerequities

• Mac OSX 10.6
• PackageMaker installed with XCode
• Disk Utility
• bdist_mpkg

Building single packages :

• Restkit : version tested 2.1.4
• CouchApp : version tested 0.7.0

Every package should be built the same way (issue the command in the root of the source trees):

python setup.py bdist_mpkg

This will generate a .mpkg file in the dist subdirectory of the source tree. This file is actually a directory that contains some metadata, and further package files (.pkg). You should copy those packages out of the .mpkg structure (you can either use the Terminal for that, or just control-click the .mpkg file in Finder, and select Show Package Contents). The package files are located in the Contents/Packages subdirectory.

PackageMaker project preferences

Distribution

Distribution

• Title: Couchapp VERSION (e.g. Couchapp 0.7.0)
• User Sees: Easy and Custom Install
• Install Destination: System volume
• Description: Utilities to make standalone CouchDB application development simple

Add each packages extracted above to the project.

Location for *-script packages is /usr/bin and for *-purelib /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages .

Disk image generation

1. Download the attached template from here: couchapp-template.dmg.zip Double-click it if it doesn't mount the volume automatically.
2. Place the generated Installer file into the volume (remove the old one, and don't forget to Empty the Trash!). You could replace the documentation as well.
3. Unmount the volume.
4. Open the template DMG file in Disk Utility. Click on Convert and save it as Couchapp-VERSION-OSX10.6.dmg