[PD-dev] Pd macOS app naming

[Federico Camara Halac]

Pd.app would be fine, yes. But, i think some flag should be added to
distinguish 32 from 64 bit versions, like the current *-i386.app one, or
simply Pd-32.app. This would be helpful when using Gem on OSX, for example.

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Nicolas Montgermont <list at nimon.org> wrote:

> Pd.app is good for me.
> Keeping old versions of vanilla is for advanced users/dev only that can
> manage renaming the app bundle if they have a specific use of an older
> version
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> Le 01/12/2017 à 14:11, Dan Wilcox a écrit :
>
> 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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