use app instead of suite in sketchup

[vitorgalvao]

Only three apps and nothing else in the directory. No reason why suite should be used.

[tapeinosyne]

An argument for suite is that these three applications are meant to be complementary, and their origin would be unclear were they linked as standalone.

Generally, I would argue that software suites should be linked as suite, regardless of the number of actual “launchables”.

[ydesgagn]

Personally I think using suite is better than app in that case to keep them grouped together. But the suite link doesn't create anything for me. See #7382. Does all suite links have problems in Yosemite or this is only sketchup?

[vitorgalvao]

@ndr-qef Although I don’t disagree with the sentiment, I don’t really buy the reasoning.

Take yacreader. Those apps are complimentary as well, why are they not a suite (they’re not inside a directory)? Or lyrics-master, that contains only one executable, a readme, and a directory of iTunes scripts. Another example is chemdoodle, which has only the executable and a bunch of resources, but is linked as a suite, while noiz2sa does exactly the same but is linked as an app.

I found (only did a superficial search, admittedly) no discussion on this, regarding this particular cask. It seems it’s only suite on account of all the apps being inside a directory on the dmg; nothing more.

their origin would be unclear were they linked as standalone.

This in particular, I don’t buy. You presumably already know the apps sketchup consists of (and even if you don’t, it tells you when linking via homebrew-cask) because we’re not a discoverability service. Their icons are also very similar and clearly follow a pattern. Lastly, I’ve yet to see (or don’t remember) confusion stemming from something like this¹. If you say grouping them together offers some mental consistency, or is logical giving how they work together (I wouldn’t know, as I haven’t used them), that I can get behind. Their origin being unclear is something I really don’t see.

Having said that, I don’t feel it’s such that big of a deal in this case, so we should keep it as is (as I said, I can see the sentiment of what you mean). We should fix those other cases, though, to have some consistency.

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¹ I’m only recalling Adobe apps as a suite, as an example. Their apps aren’t all under a single Adobe directory, and no one has ever been confused by that. They do mostly (not all, if I recall correctly) start with “Adobe” in the name, so it’s not a good example.