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List:       kde-mac
Subject:    Re: [KDE/Mac] BUNDLE_INSTALL_DIR
From:       Mike Arthur <mike () mikearthur ! co ! uk>
Date:       2010-03-17 20:06:57
Message-ID: 49B55119-A96B-4E54-A77E-7317BB1B36FB () mikearthur ! co ! uk
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On 17 Mar 2010, at 19:54, Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Mike Arthur wrote:
> > Is there any good reason for this to be set to /Applications/KDE4? It seems
> > pretty unintuitive to violate the requested CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX and
> > install just the bundles here?
> 
> Isn't /Applications the place where application bundles on OSX typically go ?
> Having the app bundles in /usr/local/ would be kind of strange.
> What would you suggest ?

The problem is that applications on OSX are normally completely self-contained in \
their bundle. So either I'd say everything has to be self-contained in the bundles or \
everything should go in the prefix. It's a pretty weird system at the moment that \
most of it goes in the install prefix except for a few bundles. It also means unless \
the prefix is somewhere in the PATH, chances are the bundles won't even work (this \
has been my experience).

Ideally we should get the OSX version so it has self-contained bundles which have \
been properly "fixed-up" but at the moment the number of runtime dependencies make \
this pretty hardcore at the moment. Hopefully some of the KDE on Mobile stuff might \
help with this.

--
Cheers,
Mike Arthur
http://mikearthur.co.uk

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