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Mac installer: add comment on problem with BOINC+VBox installer

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## updated 12/16/14 by Charlie Fenton to name folders "x86_64" not "i686"
## updated 12/16/14 by Charlie Fenton to also code sign the installer package
## updated 12/17/14 by Charlie Fenton to fix typo in build of BOINC+VBox installer
## updated 4/7/15 by Charlie Fenton to comment on problem with BOINC+VBox installer
##
## NOTE: This script requires Mac OS 10.6 or later, and uses XCode developer
## tools. So you must have installed XCode Developer Tools on the Mac
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## * Copy VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool from the VirtualBox installer disk
## image (.dmg) into this "VirtualBox Installer" directory.
##
## NOTE: As of 5/7/15, I recommend against releasing the combined Macintosh
## BOINC+VirtualBox installer because each version of VirtualBox comes with
## its own uninsall script included as a separate command-line utility.
## Using the uninstall script from a previous version of VirtualBox may not
## work correctly, so we can't just add the current script to our "Uninstall
## BOINC" utility because the user may later upgrade to a newer version of
## VirtualBox. We should not install VirtualBox as part of the BOINC install
## unless our BOINC uninstaller will uninstall it. We can't expect BOINC users
## to be comfortable finding and running a command-line utility.
##
## We have asked Oracle to include their uninstall script inside the VirtualBox
## bundle, or some other standard place where our BOINC uninstaller can find
## the current version, but they have not yet done so.
## Usage:
##