[PD-dev] Pd macOS app naming

Dan Wilcox danomatika at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 14:11:48 CET 2017


Bringing this up again as there is work towards a new (bug fix) release:

> On Nov 5, 2017, at 6:10 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy all,
> 
> Now that the Pd mac app bundle is built with the version info included, we could consider dropping the version name from the app bundle name and just use "Pd.app" or "PureData.app". For comparison, Pd extended uses "Pd-extended.app". The versions are differentiated by the OS using the info in the app's plist automatically and users can see the version info in Finder's Get Info dialog.
> 
> The only downside is users who have multiple versions of vanilla on their systems will need to manually rename the app bundle if they want to keep these versions together in the /Applications folder.
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