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

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#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 arma):

 Replying to [comment:22 Sebastian]:
 > 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).

 I am unable to think like either an osx user or windows user wrt
 installers. So while I guess people look to me as good at simulating users
 in general, in this case I'm not useful.

 Do we have among us the right people with the right skillsets to both
 figure out what the packages should be doing on each platform, and change
 them so they do it? Or should we be trying to find those people?

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