easier install on mac?

Question

easier install on mac?

jodinathan opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

Jonathan Rezende commented 2 years ago

Is there a .dmg to download anywhere?

Per Bothner · Answer 1 · Thu Sep 29 2022 23:52:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I dont have any experience creatng a .dmg - I barely know how to use one.

Using a script like create-dmg seems like a good idea.

However, I could use some help in how to create a suitable source-folder. It seems plausible to create a temporary folder and then install into it:

mkdir $(DMG_SOURCE_DIR)
make install prefix=$(DMG_SOURCE_DIR)
... create symlinks? what else?
create-dmg DomTerm-$(DOMTERM_VERSION).dmg $(DMG_SOURCE_DIR)

Is this the right approach? What are the missing steps?

Jonathan Rezende · Answer 2 · Fri Sep 30 2022 01:51:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I also have no experience in creating .dmg but I can help test at least

Per Bothner · Answer 3 · Fri Sep 30 2022 12:36:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

First attemp at a .dmg: here

There are some known problems (including a bad icon) and it may not work for you.

Per Bothner · Answer 4 · Sat Oct 01 2022 01:26:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I updated this dmg. Most significantly, the default is now the wry front-end. This has the advantage that (hopefully) it doesn't have any extra dependencies; the downside it doesn't use the mac menubar (yet).