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Build macOS app using AppBundler #8

Closed SatGarcia closed 6 years ago

SatGarcia commented 7 years ago

I ran into problems trying to run the beta version on my mac. Sounds like others have this problem, as it was reported in Bug #964 (see: point 2 about the app not opening).

I updated the Ant build.xml file so that the mac-app target uses AppBundler and produces a zip file instead of a tar.gz (the comment from 2008 about zip files pre mac os x 10.5 didn't seem apropos any more).

Builds and works perfectly on OSX 10.11 (El Capitan). Previously DrJava would ask that I install Apple's old Java 1.6 version but with the new build setup, it works just fine without 1.6 installed (I only have Oracle's 1.8).