Re: Can tools ever be bundles?
Re: Can tools ever be bundles?
- Subject: Re: Can tools ever be bundles?
- From: Daryle Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:55:20 -0400
On Mar 19, 2015, at 4:25 PM, Andrew Keller <email@hidden> wrote:
On Mar 18, 2015, at 6:48 AM, Daryle Walker < email@hidden> wrote: I’m trying out making a Foundation command-line tool. I added a bundle identifier string when creating the project, but I don’t see it anywhere, as if there’s no Info.plist. Are (Foundation) tools created by Xcode flat files, like traditional Unix tools? Or are they bundles? If flat files, can they be made into bundles with some project tweaks?
A “tool”, as Xcode calls it, is a traditional single-file executable.
Depending on what data you need in your bundle, you can stuff it inside the executable.
There’s an Xcode setting for incorporating a Info.plist to a flat-file executable. If you need the power of a typical bundle, then you can modify the project to assemble a real bundle. That comes with the price of being awkward to install in the OS like most tools. If your tool has an owning application, I suggest putting the tool inside the owning application bundle.
This isn’t part of some app; it’s a stand-alone tool. I mentioned in a disconnected message that I made an attempt in the “0.1” release of my project at < https://github.com/CTMacUser/cget>.
— Daryle Walker
Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie
darylew AT mac DOT com
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