Flipper: Discussion: distribute macOS application with DMG

[lucasbento]

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.

[passy]

I've never quite understood the benefit of having a dmg over a normal zip, could you maybe explain how it's more convenient?

I generally wouldn't be opposed to having another option to our build script (e.g. yarn build --mac-dmg). We use the default behaviour in some other contexts, so I'd quite like to preserve this but adding an alternative option should be fine!

[lucasbento]

I got this and this which I think that are good points.

Also, I believe that it looks more _presentable_ with a DMG, with a zip I just forget about where the app is, but that's just me 😅

[passy]

Those are good points! Internally we build a .pkg for distribution, but it's all just lipstick on a pig. Package management on MacOS is a disaster.

Would you be interested in working on this? Otherwise I may open another issue with some instructions because this seems like it could be a nice starter issue. :)

[lucasbento]

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 🙂

[passy]

Amazing! :)