[CMake] CMake 2.6.0 Beta ready for testing!

Mike Jackson imikejackson at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 09:34:45 EDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> Doug Gregor wrote:
>
>
> >
> > IMHO, the best way to do this would be to have the app be CMake.app
> > (installed directly in /Applications), then create a symlink called
> > cmake-gui that can used from the command line.
> >
> >
>  I still like having a version numbered folder for CMake.
>
>  It would be:
>
>  /Applications/CMake 2.6.0/CMake.app
>  /Applications/CMake 2.6.1/CMake.app
>
>  Then when the command line tools are created it would create the symlink to
> cmake-gui.  Of course the symlinks would only be able to have one of the
> installed tools in a directory like /usr/local/bin.  I checked and this is
> not uncommon with commercial software. For example, quicken uses this
> strategy (/Applications/Quicken 5.x/Quicken.app).  I will try and get to
> this at some time before 2.6.0 is finalized.
>
>  -Bill
>

That sounds great!. I think we have found that perfect balance between
everybody's needs and wants.

-- 
Mike Jackson
imikejackson _at_ gee-mail dot com


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