Great work P.O.!

René.

> On 9 Feb 2021, at 18:51, P.O. Jonsson <oor...@jonases.se> wrote:
> 
> I have now arrived at a .dmg macOS installer that is building without errors 
> on Jenkins. I have adapted the naming so that is is now also uploading to 
> sourceforge where you can check it out.
> 
> Background: Any macOS dmg installer conventionally contains the package to be 
> installed, any additional files/directores and a link to /Applications, the 
> users Applications directory where all „normal“ applications reside. The 
> installation process involve dragging the package and dropping at the link, 
> that is the complete installation process.
> 
> To make the installer work  I had to make one change in addition to the 
> naming; I realized that it is not possible (at least I failed it) to create a 
> symbolic link to ~/Applications, i.e. to a directory in the (at the time of 
> creating it, unknown) users home directory. I have created instead a link to 
> /Applications, the users „normal“ application directory. I have amended the 
> readme to this respect and explained how to install ooRexx in any other 
> directory. Everything works as expected after install, even the man pages are 
> detected. The macOS installer for ooRexx 5 now looks very much like any other 
> macOS dmg installer.
> 
> If all (macOS) developers are fine with this I will leave it like this for 
> now.
> 
> PS In the installer I have included a fresh copy of the documentation and an 
> additional instruction on how to create a sudo-free USB version of ooRexx.
> 
> Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse,
> P.O. Jonsson
> oor...@jonases.se
> 
> 
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