.dmg installer for OSX?

[Michel Fortin]

On 2011-12-12 12:45:10 +0000, Heywood Floyd <soul8o8 at gmail.com> said:

> On 12/11/11 22:29 , Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> That would be an OSX .dmg. Is a member of the community interested in
>> taking up such a project?
> 
> I must take this opportunity and proclaim that a MacPorts package would 
> be even more fantastic, to the point of giggleingly exciting even!

The only downside to MacPorts is that it is not installed by default. 
Having to install MacPorts before installing dmd adds an extra barrier 
to those who don't already have MacPorts installed. A MacPorts package 
would be great indeed, but I think there should be a way to *just* 
install DMD if that's what you want.

That said, I think the biggest barriers for D on OS X are the lack of 
Xcode support and the difficulty in accessing half of the system's APIs 
which are in Objective-C. I have made semi-complete solutions 
addressing both of these problems, but I don't have much 
time/inclination to work on them at this time as my current projects do 
not involve D much.

-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
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