Support for OS-specific "bundle values"

[daniel-abramov]

Bundles for some operating systems may have more options available than for others.

For instance if we're talking about OS X, it has several properties which you can specify in Info.plist such as CFBundleURLName (quite a common thing if you want your app to be able to catch the corresponding URI requests), at the moment there is no way to add additional properties to Info.plist as it has a fixed, hardcoded format with only certain (the most common) values.

It would be nice to be able to specify OS-specific bundle properties.

[mdsteele]

Some additional OS-specific fields we could consider adding:

• deb_depends (list of strings) - this would also take care of issue Dependency specification #25
• deb_postinst (string)
• deb_prerm (string)
• ios_interface_orientation (string)
• ios_launch_image_file (string)
• ios_prerendered_icon (boolean)
• ios_requires_persistent_wifi (boolean)
• ios_status_bar_hidden (boolean)
• ios_status_bar_style (string)
• osx_frameworks (list of strings)
• osx_high_resolution_capable (boolean)
• osx_resources_file_mapped (boolean)
• rpm_depends (list of strings)
• rpm_postinst (string)
• rpm_prerm (string)

[virtualritz]

For macOS, how about adding code that automatically turns this_name in Cargo.toml's [package.metadata.bundle] section into CFBundleThisName in Info.plist?

For example, I need:
CFBundleSignature
CFBundlePackageType
CFBundleExecutable

Asking for each of these and waiting for the devs to update cargo-bundle is not practical.

[Absolucy]

Something like [package.metadata.bundle.deb] and [package.metadata.bundle.mac] that overrode [package.metadata.bundle] would be useful - for example, packaging a systemd .service file in a deb, and a launchd .plist file in an .app. or an .icns file on macOS, .png on Linux, etc etc

[alokedesai]

Any update on this? Support for CFBundleURLName is really often used for MacOs apps and not being able to use it with cargo bundle is frustrating. Thanks so much for working on this project!

[ghost]

Seems like this project is pretty much dead, sadly.

[mdsteele]

Yeah, I haven't been able to provide any active development on this project lately. However, PRs are always welcome, and I do still try to keep up with reviewing those. If there's a feature you need, please go ahead and add it!