From: John Platte <john.platte@...>
Date: 2004-05-04T00:35:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Installer

On 2004 Apr 30, at 20:05, Curt Hibbs wrote:

> Parts of the build system could be reusable for another platform. But  
> for
> the installer, we are using an open source installer for Windows  
> (NSIS).
> This, obviously, would not work for other platforms.

OS X has a built-in installer. You can create packages using the  
command line. Packages can run scripts (including #! shell scripts)  
before, during, and after installation.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/ 
SoftwareDistribution/

from the command line:
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1284.html

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