[cmake-developers] DragNDrop: Easier custom dmg layouts

[David Cole]

This looks pretty reasonable to me. From Rob's initial email, I
thought it sounded like there was some sort of backward compatibility
problem, but looking through the code, it seems like everything should
all work the same for projects that aren't changing..... Was I
misunderstanding about backwards compatibility, or am I missing
something?

And although I haven't built it or run it myself yet, I trust that if
the DMG produced for CMake looks good, that people can model their own
code after CMake's own code to achieve better looking DMG installers.

Personally, I am stuck on what I consider to be a very old Mac right
now. It's a mini from ~2007-2008, and it's stuck running 10.6. I use
it only when I absolutely have to (i.e. for virtually nothing) because
it's so much slower than other machines I use. My point with
mentioning this at all is to encourage you to drop support entirely
for <10.6 at this point. (i.e. -- put this topic back in 'next' and
retire those old Macs... they're tired... :-)

Nice work, Rob.

Thanks,
David C.



On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 12/22/2014 02:15 PM, Robert Maynard wrote:
>> If anyone has any questions or issues with this branch please tell me.
>
> I'd appreciate feedback on this from others with experience in
> OS X packaging.  For reference, the commit drafts are:
>
>  DragNDropGenerator background image now uses source file extension.
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=2c8b9f50
>
>  DragNDropGenerator now places the background image file in a hidden folder.
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=a7f55ac9
>
>  DragNDropGenerator now can run an apple script when making a package.
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=309ffd8e
>
>  DragNDropGenerator copies the background image after the dmg is created.
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=2dc198b2
>
>  DragNDropGenerator now manually computes the size of the temp dmg image.
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=dfb74f52
>
>  DragNDropGenerator Updated Documentation to include new variables.
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=76a39f7a
>
>  CMake DragNDrop release now uses a custom background and script
>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=4549f8ef
>
> However, for now I had to revert it from 'next' because it does
> not work on OS X <= 10.5.
>
> -Brad
>
> --
>
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ
>
> Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit:
>
> CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html
> CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html
> CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers