.dmg installer for OSX?

[Sean Kelly]

On Dec 15, 2011, at 4:47 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:

> On 2011-12-15 11:33:15 +0000, Ruslan Mullakhmetov <tiabaldu at gmail.com> said:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Not a chance. The App Store is for applications. And applications are required to be self-contained, they are not allowed to use an installer. Apple is bypassing its own rules for Xcode.

There is some grey area here though.  TextMate, for example, is an application but has a preference that will put a link in /usr/bin to launch it from the command-line.  So apps are allowed to configure the environment on request.  For DMD you'd probably really have to bundle it with an IDE to qualify it as an app store item though.