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Discussion: distribute macOS application with DMG

See original GitHub issue

The main point for this is to make it easier (and prettier) to install the application under the Applications folder, right now you just unzip it and it’s left wherever the .zip was stored.

With electron-builder this should be pretty straightforward: https://www.electron.build/configuration/dmg.

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Created 4 years ago
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passycommented, Feb 19, 2020

Amazing! 😃

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lucasbentocommented, Feb 19, 2020

but it’s all just lipstick on a pig

TIL lipstick on a pig 😄

Package management on MacOS is a disaster.

Completely agree with this.

I can make some time to work on this, probably starting next week though as I’m working on #798. It’s definitely fine to open another issue If you feel like there’s another person available to work on this sooner 🙂

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