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Re: [platform-dev] MacOS .dmg vs .tar.gz
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The quarantine bit is added when people download the archive via the browser. It does not apply to those downloading with another tool eg curl/wget.
It’s possible that your users are accustomed to downloading with one of those tools, or are expanding archives with a brew-installed tar (which might not support the propagation of the quarantine bit).
This has been the default since macOS 10.5 so it’s not a new issue.
Alex
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> On 14 Oct 2020, at 10:25, Liviu Ionescu <ilg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 14 Oct 2020, at 09:56, Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> the web pages don't present this to the user because it's just not very usable for an end-user given all the protections in place on MacOS.
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> This is a bit weird, I have difficulties to understand why, according to multiple opinions, archives are considered 'not very usable', while for three years all my GNU MCU Eclipse macOS releases were plain archives and tens of thousands of users had no problems to install them.
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> And nobody ever complained for having to remove the quarantine extended attribute added by the browser after download.
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> For those who missed my previous message, here is how the new Download page looks like:
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> https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.embed-cdt/downloads
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> It is a simple and clear notice, hard to miss.
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> Regards,
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> Liviu
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