[CMake] cpack bundle generator qq

[Clinton Stimpson]

Timothy M. Shead wrote:
> David Cole wrote:
>> I vote for a new generator then. A Drag-N-Drop DMG generator == DDD? :-)
>
> I prefer this to changing the bundle generator behavior.
>
>> Maybe just good documentation about the existing generators and what 
>> sorts of assumptions they make would be a good place to start. I 
>> think the main problem here is that people expect the "bundle 
>> generator" to deal with bundles properly, when in fact, what it does 
>> is create a bundle for you at packaging time. It's a name overloading 
>> / human understanding problem... not a problem with the code.
>
> I would nuance this to suggest that the current MACOSX_BUNDLE behavior 
> blurs the line between building and packaging, which causes much of 
> the confusion.  Arguably, a dmg+bundle IS-A package - so creating a 
> bundle in the build directory is the wrong division of labor.  If 
> there was NSIS-specific stuff that got created in the build directory 
> every time you specified WIN32_EXECUTABLE, we'd be having the same 
> sort of confusion on Win32.

How do you see a "make install" fitting in?  I think you need the 
application bundle by that time.

Clint