Follow-up Comment #1, bug #12567 (project wesnoth):
Oops, a few more disadvantages:
You need administrator privileges. This doesn't affect me but could
conceivably be a problem for some users.
You can't read the README, etc. without installing the whole thing, which
you may not want to do until after reading the README.
The proper way to deal with frameworks is not to indiscriminantly write
them from an installer, but to depend on them. Users should install the
SDL/Boost frameworks, or they should be bundled in the .app. They shouldn't
be installed by third-party installers like wesnoth. On linux, package
managers take care of these dependencies. Apart from MacPorts/Fink there's
nothing like this on OS X, which favors bundling things in .app if you don't
want to make the user track down dependencies.
(PS sorry for the formatting issues on the previous)
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