> > Looking at the archives on rakudo.org[1], there are .dmg files, which > are packages for Mac I believe. Though, I'm not using a Mac, so please > tell me if these are just Mac specific archives to be unzipped.
While "dmg" files are quite convenient for OSX users, the OS can natively open zip files in the finder also. A "dmg" is a disk image, and MacOS going all the way back to System 7 or so treats it similar to mounting an ISO in other operating systems. The tarball I've created requires compilation in addition to just > "unzipping", though. I'm not sure if that's a problem for regular Mac > users. If it's not, I guess the Mac part is not an obstacle for getting > a release out. I'm not sure how many dev tools come with OSX, I am a developer so I installed the XCode command-line tools (and Emacs and more...) Pretty sure a regular Mac user would expect to open the dmg/zip in the finder, then drag an application into Applications, and possibly a Docfolder into Documents or the like. No terminal commands. It's not too unusual for non-trivial apps to have installers, so if your thoughts and browsing points that way, go for it. And then there's "homebrew" the OSX package manager. https://brew.sh – I don't know much about how homebrew works, though if there's a recipe for Raku and/or Rakudo Star then people will essentially build it from source on their own systems via "brew install raku". -y On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 1:52 PM Patrick Spek via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 22:23:30 -0800 > Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote: > > > Last I recall, there was no Mac installer for Rakudo Star at all, nor > > was there any need for one. The compiled project is simply in a zip > > file which the end-uaer unzips and then the resulting folder is ready > > to use as is. Don't know about Windows. If anything, on the Mac, > > having an installer has always been a misfeature, and most > > applications don't have one. -- Darren Duncan > > Looking at the archives on rakudo.org[1], there are .dmg files, which > are packages for Mac I believe. Though, I'm not using a Mac, so please > tell me if these are just Mac specific archives to be unzipped. > > The tarball I've created requires compilation in addition to just > "unzipping", though. I'm not sure if that's a problem for regular Mac > users. If it's not, I guess the Mac part is not an obstacle for getting > a release out. > > [1]: https://rakudo.org/files/star > > -- > With kind regards, > > Patrick Spek > > > www: https://www.tyil.nl/ > mail: p.s...@tyil.nl > pgp: 1660 F6A2 DFA7 5347 322A 4DC0 7A6A C285 E2D9 8827 > > social: https://soc.fglt.nl/tyil > git: https://gitlab.com/tyil/ >
