Re: [platform-dev] MacOS .dmg vs .tar.gz

[Liviu Ionescu <ilg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 14 Oct 2020, at 14:31, Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Right, as long as you have a proper URL, not something like:

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/embed-cdt/packages/2020-09/eclipse-embedcdt-2020-09-R-macosx.cocoa.x86_64.tar.gz

> 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).

Although I don't exclude these use cases, I seriously doubt that someone would prefer to do this, instead of simply downloading via the browser and removing the quarantine bit, as recommended in the Download page.


Regards,

Liviu