[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:  erinn
     Type:  task                      |         Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:       
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:       
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Comment(by hellais):

 I have made a patch for making this work programmatically.
 Creating DS_Store files is a PITA. What mozilla does is even more dirty
 than the solution that we are going to use. The basically take a .DS_Store
 file and modify it to their needs.

 What we will do is instead use AppleScript to set the parameters of the
 .dmg image and have the OSX handle the DS_Store writing.

 On a high level what it does is create a .dmg image with background image,
 icons and proper sizing.

 The only doubt that we had with erinn is that this will have a slightly
 different behavior than what users are usually used to.  Since the .dmg is
 mounted as read-only they will not be able to run TBB directly from the
 .dmg container.

 We have solved this by writing in the background image of the .dmg the
 text "Copy to you applications folder or to an external drive".

 This is how the mounted image looks like:
 http://hellais.github.com/drop/Tor%20Browser%20Bundle%20OSX-screenshot.png

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