Recently we added OS X support for Understand 2.0. I’m not a Mac user myself, but as the “Build Engineer” I’ve spent quite a bit of time on our Mac build machine lately getting the installer polished up and I have to admit that I like what I see.
I went to a couple of our resident macheads to find out how applications are normally installed on the Mac. I was going to just .tar.gz it like our linux builds, but they protested, wanting something with a little more flair. So I was able to bundle it into a dmg package, but they insisted I had the layout all wrong and it was just ugly 
Ok, I admit I have no graphical design sense.
I needed an inspiration. Several of us here at the office are Geocachers, and Jim just downloaded MacCaching which not only provides useful geocaching information, but had a very nice OS X install package. I thought I would try for a similar affect with our installer.
It wasn’t easy. They had a nice background image in their folder, and we wanted one as well. After wasting almost an entire day on copying .DS_store files around and losing the image every time I moved the folder, I discovered this wonderful article, which quickly taught me all I needed. Thanks Peter!
So as of Build 441, when all you Mac Users download Understand 2.0, you will now see this beautiful install window.
Enjoy!
KevinG
Leave a comment