.dmg installer for OSX?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/11/11 4:20 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com <mailto:newshound2 at digitalmars.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/11/2011 2:10 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>
>         Perhaps a .pkg would be more appropriate?
>
>
>
>     What we want is a one-click installer, whatever that might be on OSX.
>
>
> Apple's official guidelines are to use a .dmg if all the installer needs
> to do is copy files.  Otherwise a .pkg is required to run install
> scripts.  I don't believe you can write to any folder but /Applications
> with a .dmg (which gets an exception for writing by non-root users).
>
> If DMD does need to run scripts or install to somewhere other than
> /Applications I highly recommend using Iceberg instead of PackageMaker
> (which in my opinion is absolutely terrible).

We'd need to add dmd to $PATH, I wonder how that could be done with a .pkg.

Andrei