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

[Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Nov 2020, at 17:52, Liviu Ionescu <ilg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 11 Nov 2020, at 19:11, Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Because it’s a strictly worse experience
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> By what criteria? Can you accept that this is a subjective matter and others may think differently?

If and only if you believe the dialogs that I captured in my prior mail were identical.

> Isn't the Eclipse.app extracted from the archive as functional as the one extracted from the .dmg?

No, as it doesn’t provide an easy means to drag and drop it to the Applications folder.

> Who cares about 'kMDItemWhereFrom'?

Clearly not you :-)

> The thousands and thousands of users of my project never did, why should they do it?

The millions of Eclipse users don’t care about tar.gz files, so why should we do it?

Alex