how to run cosmos***** on a Mac os x

[isildur]

I play wow on my windows desktop and on a mac laptop and desktop. How can I start cosmos on the mac 10.3?

[Sinaloit]

There is currently no macintosh version of the patcher.

[morbid_o]

But a manual download of the Alpha should work fine....

[Ingold]

I know this has been discussed and people even showing inerest in writing an updater for cosmos on the mac.. While I am not a hard core programmer, I am a scripting nut.. I could probably write up a script to update the cosmos addons, if one of the devs or anyone else that know the process that the patcher uses to update the files would be a good start for me.

It won't be a pretty gui, but at the very least I can make it automate updating of the files then kicking up wow, without having to download the zip file every time.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

[morbid_o]

Why not shoot for a Java updater? Seems like that could benefit Mac/PC/etc. users more than a dedicated Mac client.

[ZacWolf]

Why not shoot for a Java updater? Seems like that could benefit Mac/PC/etc. users more than a dedicated Mac client.

Well I'm betting part of the reason is that Java is a bit TOO opensource (and is rather easily decompiled), thus giving hacker/cracker folks fairly easy access to the methods in which the profile data is uploaded to thottbot.

Drop out the "thottbot" profile upload piece, then Java might be a viable option for strictly deliving script updates, but to deliver a java applet in anything approaching a "secure way" then you'd need to "sign" the code via a reputable certificate authority which can be quite expensive, and of course has to be updated via the authority annually, etc.

I think we've all experienced some "thottbot" hacking (ever noticed how everything seems to disenchant into TangyClam Meat?), so I've got to agree with making the upload logic as obfuscated as possible.

-ZacWolf

[EvenStranger]

Just manually installed Cosmos on OS X 10.4.x. I copied the ***** file to the root of the WOW folder, and everything in the Interface folder went into Interface (surprisingly enough). Seems to be working ok so far, although I haven't used it on Windows, so I don't know what it's supposed to look like. Give it a shot and see how it works for you.

ES

[ZacWolf]

Just manually installed Cosmos on OS X 10.4.x. I copied the ***** file to the root of the WOW folder, and everything in the Interface folder went into Interface (surprisingly enough). Seems to be working ok so far, although I haven't used it on Windows, so I don't know what it's supposed to look like. Give it a shot and see how it works for you.

ES


Well, really all you did was installed the WoW "addon" part of cosmos (this is lua scripts which gets "compiled" in the WoW client thus is OS independant).

The file "Cosmos*****" is responsible for two things:
1) it downloads and upgrades any cosmos add-ons to their latest released version
2) it uploads thottbot profile information you've collected while you were playing (if you turn on data collection which is off by default)

Since the cosmos***** doesn't run on Mac you are not receiving any "upgrades" from Cosmos (meaning you'll need to check the website download area from time to time to see if their have been any new releases). It also means that none of the data the thotbot plugs collects is being uploaded to thottbot (so mac users need to make sure they don't enable thottbot data collection!!!).

Make sense?
-ZacWolf