# from Mike Schroeder
# on Tuesday 09 June 2009 06:48:
>It's a shell script - it will build a .app and put it into a dmg for
>distribution, allowing for drag and drop installation.
A side note on dmg: I found that users would try to run the app
directly from the read-only disk image (which would fail when it tried
to save preferences, etc.) And manipulating dmg's on Linux is
basically impossible (I was driving the Win/Mac/Linux builds from the
Linux box.)
Just make it a .tar.bz2 - when the user double-clicks it, Finder will
extract a .app folder right next to the tarball.
--Eric
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tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments."
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