OSX DMG File Thoughts

[symbioquine]

Hi, jDeploy looks like a really cool project!

This isn't a feature request exactly since I don't have a project that needs jDeploy right now, but I thought I'd share what I learned in a past project where I wanted to build Mac apps under Linux - specifically around how to package them as DMG files since I think that isn't currently part of jDeploy...

I found that pretty much all the tools for building DMG files were platform specific and would only run under OSX. The exception to this was libdmg-hfsplus which is/was what Mozilla used to build its Firefox DMG.

In case it's helpful, a lot of what I learned (mostly around getting compression and custom DMG icons to work) is captured in the my fork of libdmg-hfsplus.

Hope that's helpful!

Cheers, Symbioquine

[shannah]

Thank you for sharing this. If I add support for DMG distributions, this will certainly be helpful.