Don't use 7-Zip for macOS releases.
reitermarkus opened this issue · 7 comments
By default, macOS cannot open 7-Zip files, hence it doesn't make sense to provide the macOS release as such.
You mean the installation package or produced svgz files?
Linux also do not support 7z, but it isn't a problem, since you can install it. Also, Keka is very popular among macOS users.
If you want a different archive by default - which one?
I chose 7-Zip, because it has a better compression ratio.
You mean the installation package or produced svgz files?
I mean the installation package.
Keka is very popular among macOS users.
I'm actually using Keka myself, but since I'm using Homebrew Cask to manage GUI applications, this would add a (unnecessary) dependency on unar.
If you want a different archive by default - which one?
I really don't care about which one exactly, as long it is supported by default. But since you said you chose 7-Zip because it has a better compression ratio, I'd suggest tar.xz (~8 MB) if you feel strongly about file size, or otherwise just use zip (~10 MB), which is still reasonably small for a GUI application in my opinion.
I'm not a macOS user - so I don't know which archive is supported out of the box. And which one is the 'default'. As far as I know - it's zip. Not sure for tar.xz.
I think the best option is to provide packages in different archives.
Yes, the default surely is zip (when you create an archive using Finder), but all archives which can be created with the tar command (tar.gz/tar.bz2/tar.xz/tar.lzma) are also supported.
OK. I will add it in the next release.
Great, thanks! And of course also a big 👍 for this neat program.
Fixed.