Mac installer doesn't install a CLI

I’m opening this issue to discuss solutions to install Orca as a CLI in Mac.

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At the moment, electron-builder creates a DMG installer for Orca in Mac. This DMG installer is actually a disk image. And, in our case, it contains the app bundle Plotly Orca.app.

My understanding is that when a user double-clicks a .dmg file, Mac mounts this disk image and prompts the user to drag the disk image onto the Applications folder.

This means Orca is installed on /Applications/Plotly Orca.app.

To invoke Orca from the command line, we could use open:

open -a "/Applications/Plotly Orca.app" [--args arg1 ...]

This is rather cumbersome. We could simplify things by moving open -a "/Applications/Plotly Orca.app" [--args arg1 ...] into a script (e.g. /usr/local/bin/plotly-orca). I’ve found two ways to do this:

• create /usr/local/bin/plotly-orca on first install (see here)

• using a PKG installer and a postinstall script (not recommended)

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Could any of the mac users confirm that open -a "/Applications/Plotly Orca.app" [--args arg1 ...] works, please?

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@JamesCropcho @etpinard @jackparmer what do you think about these options?

[etpinard]

yeah // eslint-disable-next-line doesn’t work for me either.

Would putting the rest of orca_electron.js in an else be equivalent?

[etpinard]

create /usr/local/bin/plotly-orca on first install (see here)

This sounds 👌 to me.

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FYI, post https://github.com/plotly/orca/pull/88/commits/a44fc2f8670f17ed31c6e810da624debddf07605, the .app file should be named orca.app instead of Plotly Orca.app.