> On 5 Nov 2015, at 13:10, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I can’t think of any command-line tools with GUI installers. The two don’t 
> seem to go together :)
> 
> * If it’s just a single binary that doesn’t need a specific location, 
> distribute it as a zip file and just have a readme that says to move it 
> somewhere in your $PATH, like /usr/local/bin or ~/bin.
> * Otherwise you can put an “install.sh” shell script in the zip file that 
> will do the appropriate installation.
> * Even better, add your tool to Homebrew so people just have to type “brew 
> install thisniftytool” to install it.
> 

I can think of a few - Segger for instance packages its JLink stuff up as an 
installer and that’s all command-line on OSX, it installs into /Applications 
and then symlinks out of /usr/local/bin, very convenient and signed as well, 
the tools and the installer. 

I have an installer for my own product which installs a GUI app and the 
command-line tools to go with it, which does something similar, mine copies 
them to /usr/local/bin however. 

I used Stephan’s ‘Packages’ installer to create it - very simple, you can make 
it part of the Xcode build with a custom script stage. 



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