[CMake] Mac installation and cultural issues

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sat Dec 22 21:44:25 EST 2007


Brandon Van Every wrote:

> 
> In that world view, you'd add "first run invokes path configuration"
> because it gives native MacOS bigots a warm squishy feeling.  Then
> they're singing the praises of CMake instead of bitching and moaning
> about it.
> 
> The first invocation doesn't have to be through a GUI either.  ITon
> the command line, either from CMake's installation directory or from
> an absolute path.

But Xcode itself uses the same installer that CMake is currently using! 
  How much more native can you get...  Would it make Mac people happy if 
we allowed users to pick the destination from the installer?

-Bill


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