The dreaded binary error has bitten me…

“The binary you uploaded was invalid. The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate.”

Okay, in one case, it was actually valid, as I had been using an icon file that wasn’t named Icon.png and wasn’t 57×57.  Thanks to Sean for helping me with that.

But today, it was totally bogus.  I made a trivial change for a resubmit of my PrivateWeb app, and the binary was rejected.  Clean the project & rebuild, still hosed.  Restart XCode, still hosed.  Go to the finder and remove every folder from my project’s build directory and then build again – and it WORKED???  WTF?!

Ahem.  I’m glad it worked, but seriously…  There’s something buggy in XCode land.

So. I wanted to set up a cvs server under OSX. I looked around and found a few people with docs about how to set up xinetd or set up launchd, blah blah blah, but I didn’t want to deal with that. Yeah, I know OSX is unix and isn’t that great, but I want something like the old days where to install a web server, you just launched the MacHTTP app and you were done. No config files, just simple apps. Want a mail server? Fire up EIMS. Ah, the good old days…

So, as it turns out, it apparently _is_ simple to get cvs working under OSX. Here are the steps (from memory, so I might have missed something, but damn it’s simple)

• 1) Insert OSX Install Disc 1 and launch the Xcode Tools / XcodeTools.mpkg installer, Continue, Continue, Agree, Continue, Customize, deselect everything except for the top item, “Developer Tools Software”. Finish the install
• 2) Fire up Terminal and make a cvs-repository directory in your home directory (or wherever, but that’s what I used): “mkdir cvs-repository”
• 3) Add required files to the cvs repository with “cvs -d /Users/erich/cvs-repository init”
• 4) Open your System Preferences, Sharing, Services – make sure Remote Login is enabled
• 5) There is no step 5

That’s it. I fired up Eclipse, made a test project, connected using the IP address (not by name, for simplicity) of the OSX box, connection type of “extssh”, repository path of “/Users/erich/cvs-repository”, and it worked. That was it.

Secure cvs, no pserver bullshit.

Almost back to the old days. Way better than trying to set this up on Winders. But I can dream of a CVS.app someday, right? Are you on that?