On 01/08/2025 10:20, Miller Puckette via Pd-list wrote:
Hmm.. Is there a good reason I can't just upload a zipped app instead of a DMG? (For instance, perhaps the DMG thing includes a checksum or something?) I could do that without even having to change the version number :)
i guess it's probably OK :-)
there is certainly no reason to ship a ZIP with a DMG inside with the app inside (you could just ship the DMG directly).
i don't exactly remember the reason why I went for DMGs, but i think it is along the line that we *could* make the DMG a bit nicer, with a symlink to the /Applications/ folder and some background graphics to instruct the users to drag Pd into the folder to "install" it.
iirc, that was how people in macOS land were used to self-contained install applications (no idea what the current state of affairs is)
we never actually implemented this though.
in any case, i've changed the CI-scripts to explicitly use "-fs hfs+" in the future.
fdmasr IOhannes
PS: mostly for miller: afaict the macOS builder machine will be mostly offline during the next fortnight for maintenance reasons. we held back till after the Pd release, but now is the time. this basically means that we won't be able to produce signed & notarized binaries for the next two weeks. so the extracting the DMG into a ZIP seems like a good short time solution.