macOS DMG: add an Applications shortcut for drag-to-install

The DMG dropped just the bare .app with no indication of where it's
supposed to go, unlike the "drag the icon onto Applications" layout
every other Mac app uses. Stage the .app next to a symlink to
/Applications before building the image, then lay out the Finder
window's icon view (via a temporary read-write DMG, since a compressed
UDZO image can't be mounted for editing afterward) so both items are
visible side by side.

The Finder/AppleScript layout step is best-effort and fails gracefully:
this script mirrors the CI build-macos job, which likely has no
interactive Finder session for AppleScript to reach at all, so the
essential fix (the symlink itself, which doesn't depend on Finder
scripting) still lands even when the cosmetic pass can't run.

Fixes #769.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
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Felix RiestraandClaude Sonnet 5 committed 2026-09-15 11:29:57 +02:00
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@@ -112,13 +112,73 @@ codesign --verify --strict --verbose=2 "$APP"
echo "==> dmg"
DMG="$DIST/OpenCADStudio-v$VERSION-macos-arm64.dmg"
rm -f "$DMG"
# Stage the .app next to a symlink to /Applications so the DMG opens onto
# the familiar "drag the icon onto Applications" installer layout, rather
# than dropping just the bare .app into the user's Downloads-mounted volume
# with no indication of where it's supposed to go (#769).
STAGING="$DIST/dmg-staging"
rm -rf "$STAGING"
mkdir -p "$STAGING"
cp -R "$APP" "$STAGING/"
ln -s /Applications "$STAGING/Applications"
# Build read-write first so Finder can save the window's icon layout, then
# convert to the compressed read-only image the CI job's own DMG step
# already produces — same two-stage approach that layout customization
# always needs, since a UDZO image can't be mounted for editing afterward.
RW_DMG="$DIST/OpenCADStudio-rw.dmg"
rm -f "$RW_DMG"
for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
if hdiutil create -volname "Open CAD Studio" -srcfolder "$APP" -ov -format UDZO "$DMG"; then
if hdiutil create -volname "Open CAD Studio" -srcfolder "$STAGING" -ov -format UDRW -fs HFS+ "$RW_DMG"; then
break
fi
echo "hdiutil failed (attempt $i), retrying..." >&2
echo "hdiutil create (rw) failed (attempt $i), retrying..." >&2
sleep 3
done
[ -f "$RW_DMG" ] || { echo "hdiutil create (rw) failed permanently" >&2; exit 1; }
MOUNT_DIR="$(mktemp -d /tmp/ocs-dmg-mount.XXXXXX)"
hdiutil attach "$RW_DMG" -mountpoint "$MOUNT_DIR" -quiet
# Finder's own volume list can lag a moment behind `hdiutil attach`
# returning, and "container window of <alias>" isn't a valid reference the
# way "container window of disk <name>" is — so poll by name (up to 15s)
# before touching it, rather than a fixed sleep or a path-based reference.
osascript <<APPLESCRIPT || echo "DMG layout script failed (non-fatal, keeping default Finder view)" >&2
tell application "Finder"
repeat 30 times
if (exists disk "Open CAD Studio") then exit repeat
delay 0.5
end repeat
tell disk "Open CAD Studio"
open
set current view of container window to icon view
set toolbar visible of container window to false
set statusbar visible of container window to false
set the bounds of container window to {200, 120, 760, 480}
set viewOptions to the icon view options of container window
set arrangement of viewOptions to not arranged
set icon size of viewOptions to 96
set position of item "OpenCADStudio.app" of container window to {140, 180}
set position of item "Applications" of container window to {420, 180}
close
open
update without registering applications
delay 1
end tell
end tell
APPLESCRIPT
hdiutil detach "$MOUNT_DIR" -quiet
for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
if hdiutil convert "$RW_DMG" -format UDZO -ov -o "$DMG"; then
break
fi
echo "hdiutil convert failed (attempt $i), retrying..." >&2
sleep 3
done
rm -f "$RW_DMG"
rm -rf "$STAGING"
[ -f "$DMG" ] || { echo "hdiutil failed permanently" >&2; exit 1; }
if [ -n "${NOTARY_PROFILE:-}" ] && [ "$DEVELOPER_ID" != "-" ]; then