At the moment, we don't have plans to rebuild v7.5, so the change would
kick in with v7.6.

The snapshot builds use HFS+ --- but they did, anyway, since they're
created with an older version of Mac OS.

At Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:45:08 -0500, David Storrs wrote:
> Thanks, Matthew,
> 
> The version on the downloads page seems to still be APFS.  Will it rebuild
> at some point?
> 
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:46 PM Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I’ve changed the distribution build to use HFS+ going forward.
> >
> > > On Dec 10, 2019, at 6:28 PM, James Platt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Dec 6, 2019, at 9:56 PM, Darth Vadør wrote:
> > >>
> > >> If it isn't too much trouble, I at least would really appreciate this.
> > >> One reason I think this is important is because Homebrew has a cask for
> > Racket, which uses the .dmg distribution. It sets up $PATH (and probably
> > other things I don't know about as well), and can update Racket for you,
> > which is quite pleasant.
> > >>
> > >> If the maintainers of the cask see there is an easy way to support
> > older Macs they might (fingers crossed) consider it.
> > >
> > > I would also like to have an HFS+ formatted dmg as an option.  However,
> > Homebrew has dropped support for El Capitan and earlier but it continues to
> > work (most of the time) if you already had a previous version installed.
> > Everything after El Capitan can read APFS.   So, the maintainers of the
> > cask might decide that any new legacy support would be short lived.
> > >
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