Re: +[NSBundle mainBundle] broken for tools?

[Nicola Pero]

> Hi...
> 
> If one wants to run a tool and +[NSBundle mainBundle] is called it will 
> run into serious trouble...
> 
> Imagine you have a tool which fullpath is
> /imagine/your/favourite/path/tool
> 
> +[NSBundle mainBundle] first generates
> toolName = tool
> path = /imagine/your/favourite/path
> 
> Afterwards it checks path for having a .app/.debug etc suffix. When this 
> suffix is not present (look above) the tool is declared to be a 
> non-application (isApplication = NO). And now the bug happens.
> 
>     if (isApplication == NO)
>     {
>       path = [path stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"Resources"];
>       path = [path stringByAppendingPathComponent: toolName];
>      }
> 
> So path is now: /imagine/your/favourite/path/Resources/tool which is 
> then used for [_mainBundle initWithPath:path] which fails.... So if you 
> have a standalone tool, do you really need this directory-structure for 
> it??? It looks a bit odd to me....
> 
> To get my tools working I commented out the if() shown above and 
> everything is fine now for me...

If your tool has no resources/mainBundle, then [NSBundle mainBundle]
returns nil.

If your tool has resources (which you set in your GNUmakefile by adding
xxx_HAS_RESOURCE_BUNDLE = yes, and then using xxx_RESOURCE_FILES,
xxx_LOCALIZED_RESOURCE_FILES etc), then you get back a bundle pointing to
the installation directory containing those resources.

That sounds pretty reasonable to me.

What would you prefer it to return ?