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Remove build time dependencies iTerm and Postico

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
macos, postgres
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by inspecting the Xcode project’s Apple Script build configuration and how Terminal, iTerm, and Postico are referenced. Determine whether the script can be compiled without those applications installed, then verify that Postgres.app still builds and retains its client-launching behavior.

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Description

The Xcode project contains an Apple Script for launching client apps -- by default Terminal is opened, but this can be changed to iTerm or Postico. Compiling the Apple Script requires these apps to be installed on the machine that builds Postgres.app.

Maybe there's a way to compile the Apple Script at runtime, so this dependency is removed.

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