.dmg installer for OSX?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/12/11 6:51 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-12-11 22:29, 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
>
> I created an installer for Mac OS X over two years ago, when we were
> still using dsource.org. As far as I know it's never been used, I don't
> know why. This is the things I get really disappointed on. Walter
> specifically asked for an installer, I created one, it got uploaded to
> dsoruce, then nothing.

Sorry. Hopefully things have changed significantly since.

> Anyway, it's available at github:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/tree/master/osx

Would you consider authoring a pull request for 
D-Programming-Language/Installer?

> A much better way to install D, in my opinion, is DVM:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm
>
> A platform independent installer which also you to easily install and
> switch between multiple versions of DMD.

Platform-independent installers are great, just not for first users. 
Let's have a hassle-free installation path first.


Andrei