[Bug 55863] New: Create Mac OSX app bundle

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https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55863

            Bug ID: 55863
           Summary: Create Mac OSX app bundle
           Product: JMeter
           Version: 2.10
          Hardware: Macintosh
                OS: Mac OS X 10.4
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Main
          Assignee: issues@jmeter.apache.org
          Reporter: alexander.klimetschek@googlemail.com

Create a Mac OSX app bundle distribution of JMeter. This can be easily done
using Oracle's appbundler ant task [0].

I added this in my github fork of jmeter, see [1] and [2] for a patch file.
This will put the appbundler-1.0.jar into libs/, not sure if it can be
downloaded like all other jars. The bundled app only includes the minimum
(jmeter jar, libs, and bin/*.properties).

Requires Java 1.7 at least. I assume that the ant task should run on all
platforms, but I have only tested it on a Mac.

[0]
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/packagingAppsForMac.html
[1]
https://github.com/alexkli/jmeter/commit/6a1c1f99e69dfb3fb95c1947daf2c4418ee2dc41
[2]
https://github.com/alexkli/jmeter/commit/6a1c1f99e69dfb3fb95c1947daf2c4418ee2dc41.patch

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[Bug 55863] Create Mac OSX app bundle

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https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55863

Sebb <se...@apache.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Sebb <se...@apache.org> ---
The appbundler jar copies parts of itself to the target app, in particular it
copies the file JavaAppLauncher.

Unless the copied elements have a different, AL2.0-compatible license (which
seems highly  unlikely) this unfortunately means that the ASF cannot distribute
the bundle.

Sorry.

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--- Comment #1 from Sebb <se...@apache.org> ---
The appbundler jar is licensed under GPL2.0, so cannot be included in any
builds or automatic downloads.

However, *if* it is only needed at build time, it should be OK to use it to
create the package.

The build.xml script will need to be adjusted accordingly.
Something like:
- if the jar is not present, display a message and explain how to get the jar
(and that the jar is GPL2.0).
- if the jar is present, generate the MacOSX package
- add a separate task to download the jar

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