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a : automator-dev@lists.apple.com 29 November 2005 • 12:17PM -0500

Re: automated builds of Automator actions
by Timothy J. Wood

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On Nov 28, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Jim Matthews wrote:

> We've run into a couple of issues with doing automated builds of  
> Automator actions.  We want our builds to depend on the current  
> state of the source control repository, as opposed to the state of  
> the build machine.
>
> 1) The AppleScript Automator action template in Xcode stores  
> scripts in .applescript text files, and compiles them at build time  
> with osacompile.  We want to make sure that osacompile uses the  
> correct dictionary -- the dictionary for the version of the app we  
> are in the process of building.  We'd rather not have to have a  
> copy of the app installed on the build machine, and even then  
> having osascript compile against whatever copy of the app that it  
> finds on the build machine would not give us the sort of  
> predictable results we're looking for.  However, there does not  
> appear to be a way to pass a .sdef or aete resource to osacompile  
> -- am I missing something?

   Nope.  This is (IMO) a big issue with Automator at the moment.  
I've logged this in Radar and you should too :)

-tim

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