[Xastir] OS X binary

[N1OFZ]

Hi all,

I just finished a Xastir binary installer for OS X.  It is 17 MB and 
includes ImageMagick, libproj, ShapeLib, pcre, dbfawk and map caching.  
Before it is released I will also try to add GeoTiff support.  The only 
requirement is that Apple's basic X11 package is installed (a preflight 
bash script verifies this).  The requirements are: OS X 10.2 or better 
and the base Apple X11 install.  Not much more than a double click of 
the package and Xastir is ready to go.  I install everything in /sw to 
be compatible with an existing fink installs but it does not require 
fink.  I still want to create a postflight script to create a shortcut 
to Xastir and possibly add it to the X11 menu.  Has anyone ever created 
an Xastir logo?  Unless there is an official logo I'll probably use a 
generic X icon.

I was going to include Apple's X11 installer and do a .mpkg so there 
would be no dependencies.  However, the size of the package would go up 
4X.  In addition I'm not sure I can redistribute Apple's package.  So I 
have been experimenting with downloading it with curl and installing 
from the command line on the fly during the install process.  Any OS X 
users have thoughts?

I am in the process of testing it now.  My Mom got a 20" iMac for 
Christmas and my Brother-in-law got a 17" iMac, so I have two virgin 
machines to test on!

Dana
N1OFZ


> For anyone interested, I also made up a Cygwin/Xastir CD. Not as 
> flexible as
> Bill's but it's a one-double click process. Double-click and don't 
> touch the
> computer for 5 minutes, since it uses Autoit and moving the mouse can 
> cause
> it to miss a step. Total install takes about half an hour, more if the
> Canadian Toporama maps are included (add 400 MB). It has Imagemagick 
> and
> Shapefile support. $10 would cover shipping to the US, the CD and
> mailer....I found it works on Win98 and XP but not on Win95 or WinME.