On Dec 15, 2011, at 4:47 AM, Michel Fortin wrote: > On 2011-12-15 11:33:15 +0000, Ruslan Mullakhmetov <[email protected]> said: > >> Probably, Mac App Store instalation would be the best? >> I don't know, do Apple policies allow to install a command line utilities >> via Macc App Store, but at least apple itself install OS X Lion and XCode >> via MAS. So, there is technical posibility to install arbitary toolset, not >> only pure GUI.app located in /Application. >> What do you say? > > Not a chance. The App Store is for applications. And applications are > required to be self-contained, they are not allowed to use an installer. > Apple is bypassing its own rules for Xcode.
There is some grey area here though. TextMate, for example, is an application but has a preference that will put a link in /usr/bin to launch it from the command-line. So apps are allowed to configure the environment on request. For DMD you'd probably really have to bundle it with an IDE to qualify it as an app store item though.
