deploying stand alone application for mac

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/22/09 5:52 PM, "Gerhard Meier" <gerrri at gmx.de> wrote:

Hi Gerhard,

> Making the app standalone with the vcomponents-script makes the app very big.
> Before it is about 10 MB, after it is 60 MB and it takes a minute starting the
> app from the CD. This is almost inacceptable slow.

I think speed is not because of size of app.

Keep in mind that 47MB of vcomponents folder, this is FEW dlls.
Also each DLL is in universal binary format, i.e. Contains PPC and Intel
codes.

So in fact OS loads in worse case only HALF of that size, i.e. 23MB.

Also e.g. (Vreport.dylib + wx.dylib = 19Mb) should be loaded from disk only
if your app will ask for reports.

Also vclient.dylib () is loaded and used only if you connect to vserver


> I have another CD using Valentina for DB-queries. And except of the DB-files
> themselves (.dat, .vdb, .indI) I can't see there any
> Valentina-Standalone-Files, no files on mac and no on win partition. But the
> db-queries work. The only thing I see is the V4MD.xtra in the Xtra-Folder
> (better say: they use the V4MD_carbon.xtra; I use V4MD.xtra; should I take the
> carbon one?)

Probably that was v1.x

> So: do they use another way making the CD standalone for DB-queries? It seems
> that on that CD the V4MD_carbon.xtra is enough

If you talk about v2 or v3 or v4, then V4MD Carbon also use files from
vcomponents. They should be copied near to app like on windows.


> Thanks a lot 
> Gerri

-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

[I feel the need: the need for speed]