On Dec 3, 2019, at 7:09 PM, John Clements wrote:

> It sounds to me like an easy solution to your problems would be a 
> .tgz-bundled set, as e.g. we offer for Minimal Racket on the page
> 
> https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/7.5/
> 
> specifically at the link 
> 
> https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/7.5/installers/racket-minimal-7.5-x86_64-macosx.tgz
> 
> It looks to me like it would be fairly easy to generate this bundle for full 
> racket, unless I’m missing something obvious. It would presumably appear on 
> the “More Variants and Checksums” page along with the other tarballs. Is this 
> something you’d like to see happen for the 7.6 release?
> 
> As far as the choice of .dmg for the standard distribution, it has two 
> advantages that I’m aware of:
> 1) It allows us to create a easy installation path by specifying the way the 
> disk window should look when we open it, as opposed to having an installer, 
> and
> 2) It’s natively supported by Apple’s notarization workflow; I know that .tgz 
> files don’t work, and I suspect that .zip files wouldn’t work either, though 
> that’s just a guess.

Yes, I think tgz would be helpful.  The market my company is targeting with our 
software has a much greater share of Mac and Linux than typical and tgz is 
native to both.  On the other hand, would an HFS+ formatted dmg be an option?  
Support for that format goes all the way back to Mac OS 8.1.  I know that HFS+ 
formatted dmg distributions supported both advantages (1 and 2 above) in the 
past.  

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