[CMake] CMake 2.6.0 Beta ready for testing!

David Thulson david.thulson at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 12:04:44 EDT 2008


It does not appear that CMake 2.6.0 puts anything but the
cmake-gui.app bundle in the /Applications subdirectory.  I suppose
that having separate dirs is nice for beta releases, but does it
really make sense for the default?

David Thulson


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, creating subfolders in /Applications has lots of
>  precedence. Larger applications will do this type of action because
>  there are so many support files. Look at Adobe Photoshop, iWork,
>  MSOffice and lots of others.
>    If a developer has more than just an App bundle then they really
>  should be making their own subdirectory in /Applications.
>
>
>  --
>  Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
>  Innovative Management & Technology Services
>
>
>
>
>  On Mar 28, 2008, at 10:27 AM, David Thulson wrote:
>  > Also, while I only recently switched to a Mac, it does not appear to
>  > be common that you create a subdirectory in Applications by default.
>  > It seems like it would be nice if the cmake-gui application bundle was
>  > just directly in Applications.  That isn't a big deal, just a thought.
>
>


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