Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGElev and macOS

[James T. <ja...@fl...>]

> On 20 Jun 2023, at 01:54, Rhys Ackerman <rhy...@gm...> wrote:
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> I'm sure there's a reason for this and I'm just not aware of it, but how come FGElev is not included in prebuilt (LTS,RC+Nightly) builds of FG? It is included with other OS builds. I can see from Jenkins that it is built as part of the build so is it simply a case that when creating the final .app bundle, it isn't copied over? 
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> Looking through various places, I can see that this has been the case since at least 2020 (I'd assume it always has and that was just the first mention). Having it included with macOS would mean us mac users who do not build from source are still able to use it, as well as tools such as osm2city like our Windows and Linux counterparts.
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It’s purely an omission of the packaging scripts, you’re the first person to ever ask for it. I can add it pretty easily.

One comment though, the macOS packaging is optimised for end-user convenience: including other utilities in the .app bundle is not very visible. If we want a macOS-friendly way to share the utility binaries, something like a Homebrew script might be another option. But, adding the binary to the .app bundle is a trivial change so I’ll do that now.

Kind regards,
James