.dmg installer for OSX?

[Sean Kelly]

Sounds like most of the apps I actually use wouldn't qualify for the app store. 

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On Dec 15, 2011, at 11:26 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2011-12-15 21:53, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
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> An alpha of TextMate 2 has recently been release and TextMate 2 will not be in the App Store because it would need to give up features.
> 
> The BBEdit editor is available on the App Store but:
> 
> "...BBEdit does not support automatic installation and updating of the bbedit, bbfind, and bbdiff command-line tools..."
> 
> -- 
> /Jacob Carlborg