Re: Mac Packaging for Terminal Applications?
Re: Mac Packaging for Terminal Applications?
- Subject: Re: Mac Packaging for Terminal Applications?
- From: hagen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 19:20:24 +0200
Damian,
my feeling is macports is the way to go: If its not a consumer product.
macport is really convenient for experienced users, who have heard
about the terminal.
Best,
Hagen.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Damian Johnson <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, I'm currently working on packaging for a command line application of
> mine (http://www.atagar.com/arm). It's a python script so installing via a
> tarball hasn't been a problem for mac users so far, but I'm trying to make
> things easier. I just started distributing debs/rpms for Linux
> distributions, and I'm not sure of the proper counterpart for Macs. There
> seems to be two options:
>
> dmg - Most common format for macs. Is this just for GUI applications or is
> it done for terminal applications as well? Installing to the dashboard
> really wouldn't make much sense for this...
>
> macport (http://www.macports.org/) - Kinda looks like a BSD style
> distribution method, being fetched and installed from their repository
> rather than via packages. This looks like the better solution from a
> technical sense (it would make updating easy) but I'm not sure how prevalent
> its usage is in the mac community (ie, would mac users recognize it?).
>
> My target audience is tor relay operators so they tend to be pretty advanced
> users. Any thoughts on the preferred method of distributing terminal
> applications? Thanks! -Damian
>
>
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