On May 10, 2013, at 21:39, Jerry wrote:
> Some ports install a double-clickable binary in /Applications/MacPorts.
>
> However, the only things installed in that location are on my system are
> AquaTerm, Pallet, some python 2.7 auxiliary stuff, and something related to
> Qt4 called qmlplugindump.
>
> I have the Spyder port installed and there is a binary for it but it does not
> install in this location but rather apparently in
>
> /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
>
> with a symlink in /opt/local/bin to another small file which is a short
> python script which launches it.
>
> A different situation is cmake. When I install this from another place
> (probably the official cmake developer site), there is a GUI application
> placed in /Applications. However, the MacPorts version apparently does not
> install a GUI app anywhere.
>
> I find this a little disconcerting. Is there a MacPorts policy about these
> kinds of things?
The policy is that if a port installs an OS X GUI application, it goes in
${applications_dir}, a.k.a. /Applications/MacPorts unless you've changed it.
For non-OS X GUIs, like X11 GUIs, they may only be available in /opt/local/bin,
or there may also be a launcher in /Applications/MacPorts; port authors who
wish to add the latter to their ports can do so using the app 1.0 portgroup.
In the case of the cmake port, it appears to have a gui variant which you could
presumably select to get the GUI, in addition to the command line utilities
that are always installed. I haven't tried it. It would be better if the
maintainer changed this from a variant to a subport so that users wouldn't need
to rebuild the main port and so that users could benefit from precompiled
binaries.
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