[Diggory Laycock]

Hi,

I am currently writing a graphical TV Listings app which reads files generated by XMLTV.

I have XMLTV installed through Fink - so I can use the app with little problems.

However - I would like to publish this app (as freeware) with the important part of XMLTV included inside the App's Bundle.

I have no idea how to do this though - and quite how Fink accomplishes its magic is also beyond me.

Can I just find the XMLTV Binaries and copy them into my bundle - or will there be dependencies on my system?

I'm sorry that I'm so clueless about this - I live in ProjectBuilder's GUI world and still don't really understand how Binaries are compiled (especially if they are in Perl).

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
Can I just find the XMLTV Binaries and copy them into my bundle - or will there be dependencies on my system?

I'm sorry that I'm so clueless about this - I live in ProjectBuilder's GUI world and still don't really understand how Binaries are compiled (especially if they are in Perl).

I suspect that there would be some dependencies on XML/SAX parsers, but you could include any libraries that are dependent as well.

Perl is not a compiled language like C. The scripts are the source code, and they are executed directly.

You just need to figure out what pieces you need that are not included with OSX.

[Diggory Laycock]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
I suspect that there would be some dependencies on XML/SAX parsers, but you could include any libraries that are dependent as well.

Perl is not a compiled language like C. The scripts are the source code, and they are executed directly.

You just need to figure out what pieces you need that are not included with OSX.

Thanks - I'd forgotten that Perl is interpreted. One of these days I really ought to learn it - but it looks so scary.

I've been poking around in Fink: - I assume that pm stands for Perl Module (or something like that)

Right - looks like I've got some learning to do...

Package: xmltv
Version: 0.5.10
Revision: 3
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Depends: term-progressbar-pm, libwww-pm (>= 5.65-1), xml-twig-pm (>= 3.09-1), date-manip-pm (>= 5.40-1), xml-writer-pm, lingua-preferred-pm, lingua-en-numbers-ordinate-pm, memoize-pm, unicode-string-pm, compress-zlib-pm, log-tracemsgs-pm, xml-simple-pm, tk-pm, tk-tablematrix-pm, html-parser-pm, html-tableextract-pm (>= 1.08-1), html-tree-pm, file-temp-pm, getopt-long-pm
BuildDepends: fink (>= 0.9.9a), expat
Replaces: xmltv-basic
Conflicts: xmltv-basic