🔗 Distributing command line tools for macOS

I maintain many command line tools at work and for personal projects, like Hatch. A good user experience requires that installation is easy and reliable on all platforms, and I’ve found that macOS is the most difficult to support.

This guide will not cover how to get your project on Homebrew as that is already fairly well documented with plenty of examples. Instead, I will assume you want to distribute your project as both a standalone binary and an installer package (.pkg file).

I’ll assume the CLI has already been built and is called rusty (harkening back to a previous post).