New thoughts on a Mac PKG installer about elm-platform HOT 7 CLOSED

Can you say more about how this sets the PATH? Part of why we use /usr/local/bin/ right now is that we do not want to assume any particular kind of terminal. Is this approach going to work on every Mac regardless of terminal? If so, that seems good :)

After that, I think everything you say makes sense. I don't think we can do this for 0.13, but I do think this would be much nicer :)

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So I think I am on board for this. I don't think it'll complicate the installer code very much, and it seems like a nice improvement for users. Are you thinking of working on it?

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OS X is notoriously convoluted and broken when it comes to setting PATH, but /etc/paths.d/ seems to be the most universal and forward thinking. All shells and terminals will pick it up.

You did the right thing and made the installer using the pkg utils and plain text. I could never figure that out. I used the Packages GUI app which isn’t git friendly. Everything I proposed should be an easy addition, but I assume that included the Uninstaller as an second package will require some new variables and fiddling around.

I’ll try poking around and see if I can figure it out, but no promises.

Ahh. As a formality (on a broken-anyway-so-not-like-it-matters system):
The uninstall script (running as a postinstall for the uninstall sub-package) should have (the elm version of):
/usr/sbin/pkgutil --forget org.nimrod-lang.pkg.Nimrod

And the the postinstall script for the, uhm, installer, should have:
/usr/sbin/pkgutil --forget org.nimrod-lang.pkg.Nimrod.Uninstall=

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Did you use package maker (from Apple) to create the installer? Is this directory meant to be open and edited from within the app?

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Let's open a new issue to sort out anything that still needs sorting.

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Oh, I just read through everything. I don't really know if this should be open or closed.

Everything you describe here makes sense to me, but I definitely don't have bandwidth to work on this myself. All the resources that are part of the mac installer are created by hand in some way or another. Whenever there's a change needed, I do it by hand.

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Alright, I gotta close. Not sure what the correct path forward is, and it's better to close issues when that's the case.

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