-- MikealRogers - 25 Apr 2006

I decided today to finally get the release version of Chandler using it's own repository so that I can keep it up and start dogfooding it more.

I followed the instructions that Aparna had written up http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AparnaKadakia20051006 , but I didn't like having to start chandler via a shell script.

I started hacking at the RunPython^? and RunChandler^? scripts to set the PROFILEDIR instead of a seperate script so that I could just execute the .app but they didn't work.

Then I realized that the .app has a MacOS directory that tells OS X how to execute the application in the Resources directory and editing that worked.

So the directions are;

For those that don't use vi or emacs you can;

Download the chandler.app, right click on it in the finder and select "show package content".
Go into Contents/MacOs and right click on ChandlerApp, and select Open With -> TextEdit.app

Below the first line containing #!/bin/sh add the lines;
PROFILEDIR=/Users/mikeal/Library/Chandler
export PROFILEDIR

you can replace /Users/mikeal/Library/Chandler with wherever you want to keep your repository.

Any other chandler.app you download or if you run chandler from svn update ; make install it will use the default repository location.