Spawning a process from an app packaged with AppBundler impossible

[Hendrik Schreiber]

On Jul 6, 2014, at 11:35, Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 6, 2014, at 3:13 AM, Hendrik Schreiber <hs at tagtraum.com> wrote:
> 
>> In my case it wasn't, because Ant unfortunately swallows permissions :-(
> 
> I haven't had to worry about it or use it for a while but 'ditto' used to be a reliable OS X file copier.
> 
> 		<exec executable="ditto">
> 			<arg value="-v"/>
> 			<arg value="-rsrcFork"/>
> 			<arg value="${basedir}/homepage.app"/>
> 			<arg value="${dmg.folder.dir}/homepage.app"/>
> 		</exec>
> 
> I think I originally got it from Carbon Copy Cloner which was shareware that could back up an entire machine.
> man ditto 
> shows it's still around.

<chmod ... /> also does the trick. One only has to figure out that it is necessary...

-hendrik