.dmg installer for OSX?

[Brad Anderson]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com>wrote:

> On 2011-12-12 03:36:47 +0000, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>
> said:
>
>  On 12/11/2011 7:19 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
>>
>>> I could, but first you need to tell me how you want it installed. My
>>> installer
>>> creates a directory at /Library/Compilers/dmd and-or
>>> /Library/Compilers/dmd2 and
>>> installs the package from the zip file there. It then creates symlinks in
>>> /usr/local so dmd and the other tools are on your paths. It also
>>> installs a
>>> script that let you switch the symlinks between the two versions of dmd
>>> for D1
>>> and D2 in case you have both installed. Also, for dmd itself, instead of
>>> a
>>> symlink it installs two tiny executables that executes dmd in
>>> /Library/Compilers/dmd{,2} (like a symlink would do) but also changes
>>> the path
>>> of argument zero so that it matches the new path (so that dmd finds its
>>> corresponding dmd.conf file).
>>>
>>> So, how do you want dmd to be installed on OS X?
>>>
>>
>> I don't know - except that it ought to conform to the "Mac Way" of doing
>> things.
>>
>
> I think Apple would say that command line programs should be installed as
> it is normally done on UNIX systems. To me that means /usr/local/bin/dmd,
> /usr/local/lib/libphobos2.a and I'm not sure what should be the module path
> inside /usr/local, /usr/local/include?
>
> By putting things there, they'll automatically be on the path.
>
> But you can't have both dmd1 and dmd2 installed with that setup, which is
> why I'm using symlinks all over the place.
>
> How is it installed on Linux?
>
>
> --
> Michel Fortin
> michel.fortin at michelf.com
> http://michelf.com/
>
>
Another option would be to consider making DVM [1] an official way to get
D.  Downloading, installing, and switching versions is a problem it was
created to solve.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm/wiki/Home
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