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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Sure go ahead. I'll be happy to do what I can to help. Just be aware that some features,like drag and drop onto the dock icon depend on being in a proper app bundle.
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Thanks Kovid, I appreciate that, and what a great software application you made with Calibre. The building of a proper App Bundle isn't actually too bad anymore. There's a couple issues I have left to figure out in terms of building for different architecture flags, but those aren't complicated, I just need to re-download and go over your build scripts.
The one big question I have for you would be about the namespace for the port. Would you mind if I called it Calibre and then had the description text reference that it's an un-official port of your software and then point people at your website for the Official build's of Calibre? I in no way want any credit for your software or this, because in the end, all I am doing is simply repackaging the installer for it. As a side note, do you have any opinions of it being built as a 32 vs 64 bit app, or Universal? I can set up the port flags to build it however based on the computer, but I wasn't sure if you knew of any many problems that I should be aware of. I know that currently I am building it as 32 bit on my Snow Leopard install, but that has more to do with fear of the 64bit linker with all the problems GHC and other things have had. i decided to just force 32-bit for a lot of my building of things until the compilers and linker's on snow leopard have their kinks fully worked out.
The other smaller question I have is who you would want listed as maintainers, etc on the port. Obviously I plan to put my name there since I'm making the port initially and plan to do the updating. I assume you might want your name / email on it since it's your software, and once you are added as a maintainer, if you were to ever change your mind about the port existing, etc. you could easily pull it. I was unsure if there was anyone else who's name should be added.