On Feb 9, 2021, at 15:22, Tong Sun wrote:
> I'm in the situation that I need to know an application's bundle ID,
> it's xterm actually. And I'm wondering what's the proper way to get
> any application's bundle ID within MacPorts.
>
> I found this, but it's not helping --
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39464668/how-to-get-bundle-id-of-mac-application
>
> I did some further digging, and saw
>
> configure --prefix=/opt/local . . . -with-bundle-id-prefix=org.macports
>
> Can I assume that xterm's application bundle ID to be
>
> org.macports.xterm?
>
> Else, what should it be? Thx!
It's not a MacPorts-specific question. The bundle ID of a bundle for any of
Apple's Darwin-based operating systems can be found in its Info.plist, which is
inside its Contents folder. For example:
$ defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleIdentifier
com.apple.Safari
$ defaults read /Applications/MacPorts/X11.app/Contents/Info.plist
CFBundleIdentifier
org.macports.X11
The Portfile in which you saw the --with-bundle-id-prefix=org.macports flag was
presumably the xorg-server port, which is the port that installs the X11 app
bundle, and indeed because of that flag its bundle ID begins with org.macports.
xterm is not an application bundle; it's a command line utility. Since it is
not a bundle, it does not have a bundle identifier.
