.dmg installer for OSX?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Dec 15 04:19:26 PST 2011


On 2011-12-15 12:33, Ruslan Mullakhmetov wrote:
> On 2011-12-11 22:10:37 +0000, Peter Alexander said:
>
>> On 11/12/11 9:29 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> There's something missing from the download page (to which I just added
>>> some nice logos):
>>>
>>> http://www.d-programming-language.org/download.html
>>>
>>> That would be an OSX .dmg. Is a member of the community interested in
>>> taking up such a project?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> A .dmg isn't an installer. It's just an archive containing files.
>> Usually it contains an application package that the window background
>> instructs you to drag into the Applications folder... but that isn't
>> applicable to DMD.
>>
>> Perhaps a .pkg would be more appropriate?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dmg
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pkg
>
> Probably, Mac App Store instalation would be the best?
>
> I don't know, do Apple policies allow to install a command line
> utilities via Macc App Store, but at least apple itself install OS X
> Lion and XCode via MAS. So, there is technical posibility to install
> arbitary toolset, not only pure GUI.app located in /Application.
>
> What do you say?

I don't think command line tools are allowed.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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