diff --git a/src/MacAppBundle/CMakeLists.txt b/src/MacAppBundle/CMakeLists.txt
index d451dca5f..4dccdced0 100644
--- a/src/MacAppBundle/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/MacAppBundle/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,33 @@ endif()
 install(CODE "execute_process(COMMAND
     ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory ${PYTHON_DIR} ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/${PYTHON_DIR_BASENAME}
 )")
+
+if(HOMEBREW_PREFIX)
+    #Homebrew installs python dependencies to a site dir in prefix/libexec
+    #and installs a .pth file containing its path to the HOMEBREW_PREFIX site dir.
+
+    file(GLOB HOMEBREW_PTH_FILES "${PYTHON_DIR}/site-packages/homebrew*.pth")
+
+    foreach(PTH_FILE ${HOMEBREW_PTH_FILES})
+        file(READ ${PTH_FILE} ADDITIONAL_DIR)
+
+	string(STRIP ${ADDITIONAL_DIR} ADDITIONAL_DIR)
+        string(REGEX REPLACE "^${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/Cellar/([A-Za-z0-9_]+).*$" "\\1" LIB_NAME ${ADDITIONAL_DIR})
+        string(REGEX REPLACE ".*libexec(.*)/site-packages" "libexec/${LIB_NAME}\\1" NEW_SITE_DIR ${ADDITIONAL_DIR})
+
+        install(DIRECTORY ${ADDITIONAL_DIR} DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${NEW_SITE_DIR})
+
+        #update the paths of the .pth files copied into the bundle
+        get_filename_component(PTH_FILENAME ${PTH_FILE} NAME)
+        install(CODE
+            "file(WRITE
+                 ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/${PYTHON_DIR_BASENAME}/site-packages/${PTH_FILENAME}
+		 \"../../../${NEW_SITE_DIR}/site-packages\"
+            )"
+        )
+    endforeach(PTH_FILE)
+endif()
+
 install(DIRECTORY ${QT_PLUGINS_DIR}/ DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/qtplugins)
 
 #files installed by homebrew do not have write permission for regular user
diff --git a/src/MacAppBundle/DiskImage/background.png b/src/MacAppBundle/DiskImage/background.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..edef832d6
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/MacAppBundle/DiskImage/background.png differ
diff --git a/src/MacAppBundle/DiskImage/layout.json b/src/MacAppBundle/DiskImage/layout.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0224c196c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/MacAppBundle/DiskImage/layout.json
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+
+  "title": "FreeCAD",
+
+  "icon": "../FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/freecad.icns",
+
+  "icon-size": 80,
+
+  "background": "background.png",
+
+  "contents": [
+
+    { "x": 250, "y": 150, "type": "file", "path": "/usr/local/FreeCAD.app" },
+    { "x": 475, "y": 150, "type": "link", "path": "/Applications" }
+
+  ],
+
+  "format": "UDZO"
+}
+
diff --git a/src/Tools/ArchiveNameFromVersionHeader.py b/src/Tools/ArchiveNameFromVersionHeader.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..51455228f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Tools/ArchiveNameFromVersionHeader.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#! python
+###
+#  A convenience script to generate a deployment archive name of the form
+#  FreeCAD_{Major Version Number}.{Minor Version Number}-{Git Revision Count}.{Git Short SHA}-{OS}-{Arch}
+#
+import sys,string,getopt,platform
+
+def deserializeVersionHeader(path):
+    version = {}
+    try:
+        dat = open(path, 'r').readlines()
+    except IOError:
+        print 'Unable to open ', path
+        raise
+
+    for l in dat:
+        tokens = l.split()
+        if len(tokens) > 1 and tokens[0].lower() == '#define':
+	   version[tokens[1]] = tokens[2].replace('"',"")
+
+    return version
+
+def main():
+    OSAbbrev = {'Windows' : 'WIN', 'Darwin' : 'OSX'}
+    SHA = None
+
+    if(len(sys.argv) < 2):
+        sys.stderr.write("Usage:  archiveNameFromVersion <path to Version.h> [--git-SHA=]\n")
+
+    try:
+        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[2:], "g:", ["git-SHA="])
+    except getopt.GetoptError:
+        pass
+
+    for o, a in opts:
+        if o in ("-g", "--git-SHA"):
+            SHA = a
+
+    version = deserializeVersionHeader(sys.argv[1])
+    if SHA:
+	version['FCRepositoryHash'] = SHA
+
+    print 'FreeCAD_{Major}.{Minor}-{RevCount}.{GitShortSHA}-{OS}-{Arch}'.format(
+          Major=version['FCVersionMajor'],
+          Minor=version['FCVersionMinor'],
+          RevCount=version['FCRevision'],
+          GitShortSHA=version['FCRepositoryHash'][0:7],
+          OS=OSAbbrev.get(platform.system(), 'LIN'),
+          Arch=platform.machine())
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+