On Dec 3, 2019, at 7:09 PM, John Clements wrote:
> It sounds to me like an easy solution to your problems would be a > .tgz-bundled set, as e.g. we offer for Minimal Racket on the page > > https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/7.5/ > > specifically at the link > > https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/7.5/installers/racket-minimal-7.5-x86_64-macosx.tgz > > It looks to me like it would be fairly easy to generate this bundle for full > racket, unless I’m missing something obvious. It would presumably appear on > the “More Variants and Checksums” page along with the other tarballs. Is this > something you’d like to see happen for the 7.6 release? > > As far as the choice of .dmg for the standard distribution, it has two > advantages that I’m aware of: > 1) It allows us to create a easy installation path by specifying the way the > disk window should look when we open it, as opposed to having an installer, > and > 2) It’s natively supported by Apple’s notarization workflow; I know that .tgz > files don’t work, and I suspect that .zip files wouldn’t work either, though > that’s just a guess. Yes, I think tgz would be helpful. The market my company is targeting with our software has a much greater share of Mac and Linux than typical and tgz is native to both. On the other hand, would an HFS+ formatted dmg be an option? Support for that format goes all the way back to Mac OS 8.1. I know that HFS+ formatted dmg distributions supported both advantages (1 and 2 above) in the past. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/45E4E017-A087-4790-AD12-C3ADD6336BD6%40biomantica.com.
