[PD] Spotlight Importer for OS X

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 27, 2008, at 2:23 AM, Luke Iannini wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 20, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Luke Iannini wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>>> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 20, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Luke Iannini wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>>>>> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does this work at all on 10.4/Tiger?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it's configured by default to work with both 10.4 and 10.5.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea whether it would cause problems on 10.3?  That's not a  
>>>> make-
>>>> or-break thing, but it would be nice if it could still work on  
>>>> 10.3.
>>>> As for including the Info.plist changes in v0-40, it would need  
>>>> to be
>>>> throughly tested before including it.  Currently, there are only a
>>>> couple outstanding bugs that need to be fixed for this release
>>>> (AFAIK), so I am really hesitant to include something totally new.
>>>>
>>> According to this http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2005/ 
>>> qa1406.html the
>>> public.plain-text UTI we're using existed in 10.3.  Also, this seems
>>> to be a transitional document for 10.3>10.4, and doesn't include any
>>> callouts except:  "Note: UTIs are available in Mac OS X v10.3  
>>> Panther
>>> and later. Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger added many new types and integrated
>>> support throughout the operating system."
>>>
>>> So I think it won't be a problem for the keys in the plist, and  
>>> in the
>>> future, 10.3 should just ignore the
>>> Library/Spotlight/PureData.mdimporter file just as it would  
>>> ignore any
>>> other file it didn't recognize in the bundle.
>>
>>
>> Ok, sounds like it is worth trying to add the Info.plist UTI stuff to
>> this release.  Feel free to add it now to branches/pd-extended/v0-40,
>> but please test it.
>>
>> .hc
>>
> Yo, sorry I didn't read that closely and thought you were comfortable
> with adding the whole kit n' kaboodle, sorry about that.

It just seems to be a big unknown, and adding a big unknown in the  
last days before releasing has bitten me before.

Which reminds me: Could you give a specific example of what the  
Spotlight Importer does?  I don't quite get it.


.hc

>
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As for building it, how do you build it yourself?  That's  
>>>>>> usually a
>>>>>> good starting point for adding it to the auto-build.  If it is an
>>>>>> xcode project, you can use the command line tool xcodebuild.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yo,
>>>>> I just built in with the build button : ).  I like buttons...
>>>>> So yea, I have the project.  Looks like it builds aok with
>>>>> xcodebuild,
>>>>> thanks for the tip.  Where should I put the project folder?
>>>>
>>>> Good question. The first place I thought of is packages/darwin_app
>>>> since it is only for things related to the Pd.app for Mac OS X.
>>>> Maybe:
>>>>
>>>> packages/darwin_app/spotlight_importer
>>>>
>>>> Then it probalby makes sense to make a separate  
>>>> 'spotlight_importer:'
>>>> target in packages/darwin_app/Makefile to build and install it.
>>>>
>>>> .hc
>>>
>>> Will do.
>>> Cheers
>>> Luke
>>
>>
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