[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:  major                |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor                  |    Version:
  bundles/installation               |   Keywords:  tbb-usability, tbb-3.0,
   Resolution:                       |  tbb-easy
Actual Points:                       |  Parent ID:
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Changes (by mikeperry):

 * keywords:  tbb-usability, tbb-3.0 => tbb-usability, tbb-3.0, tbb-easy


Comment:

 It turns out that stackoverflow link does not successfully create
 UDIF/UDBZ compressed dmg images (they produce CRC errors when used on
 MacOS). However, it looks like Mozilla succeeded at this by forking
 libdmg-hfsplus to add UDBZ support. See
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935237 and
 https://github.com/vasi/libdmg-hfsplus/tree/bzip2. A LZ compressed DMG
 (UDZO format) can also be produced with https://github.com/erwint/libdmg-
 hfsplus, but it will likely be larger than UDBZ.

 If their UDBZ fork actually works as they claim, this should be relatively
 easy, though perhaps a little time consuming to build, test, and get the
 shortcuts to work properly to provide an easy link to the Desktop and/or
 the Applications folder for maximum usability.

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