Ports applications are not shown to Mac Application menu

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery at kf8nh.com
Mon Aug 23 09:32:27 PDT 2010


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On 8/23/10 09:18 , Jeff Singleton wrote:
> Platypus only makes App bundles out of Java (jar) applications that
> are launched via shell script.

Its webpage disagrees:

> Platypus is a developer tool for the Mac OS X operating system. It can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts such as shell scripts or Perl and Python programs. This is done by wrapping the script in an application bundle directory structure along with an executable binary that runs the script.

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