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Re: [tor-bugs] #4261 [Tor bundles/installation]: Use .dmg rather than .zip for Mac OS X

#4261: Use .dmg rather than .zip for Mac OS X
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 Reporter:  ioerror                   |          Owner:  hellias       
     Type:  task                      |         Status:  needs_revision
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:                
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:                
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Comment(by Sebastian):

 No, this isn't merged because it doesn't make sense. .dmg files are for
 applications which get dropped into /Applications, which TBB should never
 be on any system with more than one user. People who separate an admin
 account from their normal account (like sane people should) are always
 surprised when their TBB doesn't work right for them if they put it int
 /Applications, or C:\Program Files on Windows, etc.

 Also note that for the computer illiterate, the default behaviour of
 Safari is to "open safe files after downloading", which means people will
 automagically have the extracted file in their download directory, already
 extracted. No .zip file wrangling necessary. I absolutely agree that .dmg
 is the proper way to distribute normal applications on osx, but TBB is not
 a normal application like all the others. We could fix that, but by doing
 so we'd need to accept that there's no way to confine TBB to one single
 directory anymore. That's probably what we should do anyway, as the
 portability aspect is much less important now that we force TBB for
 everyone rather than have the possibility of the Vidalia bundle; but
 that's a separate discussion (which we should have, asap).

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