Here's how to make an Installer for Mac OS X.

First, get Ifeffit, athena, artemis, etc working well on your system. That's the hard part, of course. Detailed instructions will be elsewhere, eventually.....

Download the attached file: Mac_Build_Instructions.tar.gz, which has the basic layout for an Installer. The actual files go in a Folder called Package_Contents and information about the package goes in the Resource_Info folder.

• First, copy /Applications/Ifeffit and /Library/Perl to Package_Contents:

    cp -pr /Applications/Ifeffit/*  Package_Contents/Applications/Ifeffit/.
    cp -pr /Library/Perl/*          Package_Contents/Library/Perl/.
    chown -r root.admin  Package_Contents

• Next, edit any of the Readme files and Release Notes in Resource_Info. These are
  • RDF files.
• Then, run the Package Maker

    open Ifeffit.pmsp

You might want to update version names or whatever.

• hit Apple-K to create a new Package. That will make a file named something like

Ifeffit-1-2.x-Mac10.y.pkg. That really is the package for the installer.

• Now we need to make a disk image of the package installer. Copy this package and README.txt into the Install_Ifeffit folder. The open Disk Utility (which is found in Applications->Utilities) and create a disk image from this folder. That's done with Menu->Images->New->Image From Disk Utility.

Done. Test (optional ) and Release!