[V4CC] Prepare of beta of Valentina for Cocoa

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 4/19/06 10:54 PM, "Justin Drury" <justin at crunch-recording.com> wrote:

Hi Justin,

>> questions:
>> 
>> *   /Library/Frameworks  -- this is for V4CC framework ?
>> 
>>     What about kernel dlls?
>>     you have remap them also ?
> 
> Yea, kernel dlls and xml errors go into /resources folder of
> framework.  So final path is something like...
> /Library/Frameworks/V4CC.framework/Versions/A/Resources/
> libvkernel_fat_release.dylib

I wonder, why you install not the whole VComponents ?


>> Yes looks nice I think...and can be installed by drag and drop, yes?
> 
> Yes right into xcode, for Intel builds either a copy (or symbolic
> link?) needs to be installed in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk

>> * how you see the deployment of Cocoa application ?
>>     where will go V4CC.framework ?
> 
> Into users /Library/Frameworks.  That way cocoa apps remain very
> small, the framework is accessible by multiple computers.
> Developer's can easily swap in/out versions of V4CC.Framework(as long
> as we make no api change in terminology!)
> 
> We should be able to provide script(or just alt build) to make
> V4CC.framework embedable in app package[much like vstudio], but its a
> few more hoops[with regard to linking in the kernel dylibs into the
> framework and may require 10.4 or higher).  IMHO - /Library/
> Frameworks is the way to go, very easy to build new apps, one drag/drop.

But potential problem here:
    if we change version.

If on computer of client must be 2 apps
    app 1 use version 1.
    app 2 use version 2.
 
Yes I know that frameworks support versions, and version compatibility...

> I bring up again though the need to create a symbolic link to vkernel
> in the application/Vcomponents folder[which is otherwise empty].
> Anything that can be done to eliminate this step would be great.

-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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