On Tuesday 20 April 2010 11:44:27 am Timothy Shead wrote: > On 4/20/10 10:11 AM, Ben Medina wrote: > > What's throwing me off is the wiki says this about the Bundle > > generator: "Rationale: de-facto standard mechanism for distributing > > bundles." Unless that's only specifically referencing the previous > > sentence about distributing a compressed disk image. > > Which it is ... not sure what the confusion is? > > > Is there any documentation about why one would choose the Bundle > > generator over DragNDrop? > > Sometimes you need more control over the contents of a bundle than > DragNDrop provides. > For example, you might have a single bundle > containing a "main", graphical UI application plus secondary helper > applications that run in the background. BundleGenerator gives you > flexibility to create such a bundle, whereas DragNDrop would create a > dmg with several bundles, one-per-app. Of course, the cost is greater > complexity. > > Cheers, > Tim
My experience is the other way around. DragNDrop gives me more control, because Bundle is a specialization of DragNDrop with some additional automatics built in. Its fine, if you want those automatics. I've done your example with DragNDrop, and no, it doesn't make several bundles, unless the CMakeLists.txt file says so. All DragNDrop does is take the results of a "make install" and put it in a dmg. The Bundle generator modifies the results of "make install" and puts it in a dmg. Its that modification that gets in my way sometimes. Also, one of my first tests of DragNDrop was making a working dmg of CMake without any modifications which was originally coded for PackageMaker (and other generators on other platforms). Clint _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
