This is how the platform is. It's really not up for discussion. Regardless if agree or disagree with you, it's not up to me. Yes, it's annoying for first time newcomers, but fortunately Mac developers are very aware of this issue and they will always share this information with people. And we have been building/shipping .app bundles for several years now for OSG since the inception of the Xcode projects (and even with the Project Builder projects that Jeremy Bell and I did way back), so this is no new mystery even within the OSG community. Furthermore, bundling is a critical component of OS X, so much in fact that I dedicated an entire 20 minute Quicktime video for OSG focused on the single topic of bundling. And command line options do work with the .app bundle so they can be run so it's not like functionality has been lost.
Please remove the new CMake option. This is something I would have added myself if I thought it was safe and reasonable. (The whole CMake bundle option was implemented because of all the problems bundless apps were causing.) But trust me when I say this will only cause more problems and tech support/mailing list issues/problems/confusion down the line. The hack may work today, but it may break with the next system update or next OS release or maybe if/when we move to GraphicsWindowCocoa. I know you don't want to waste time dealing with this problem especially with your RSI and neither do I. The immutable reminder that you need a .app bundle on Mac is a good reminder and an important lesson to learn for newcomers to the system. I usually defer to your decisions (like the nested api header thing which I'm still working on), but in this case, I really need you to trust my judgement/expertise as a Mac expert on this one and I beg you to respect my wishes on this one seemingly small (but unfortunately, it isn't) topic. We're the ones who actually use the system. Thanks, Eric _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
