[cmake-developers] Making GUI applications by default

[Stephen Kelly]

Clinton Stimpson wrote:

>> I happened to read a little bit about CPack recently
>>
>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackPackageGenerators#Overview
>>
>> The recommendation is to not use MACOSX_BUNDLE when using cpack,
> 
> I don't see that as a general recommendation for GUI applications on Mac
> OS X. 

Yes, my statement was a little over-general.

> Its only true if you use the Bundle generator, which does the
> equivalent of the MACOSX_BUNDLE conversion at cpack time (not install
> time).  I wouldn't base a general statement on a generator where one has a
> broken "make install" just to make a cpack generator work.
> 
> If you use any other cpack generator with a GUI application, you do use
> MACOSX_BUNDLE.

I imagined that users could set the value of CMAKE_MACOSX_BUNDLE to True by 
default, but False if ("${CPACK_GENERATOR}" STREQUAL "MACOSX_BUNDLE").

Is that realistic? I don't really know much about cpack, bundles or Mac OSX 
in general.

Thanks,

Steve.