macOS does not support 'xz' by default
tjluoma opened this issue · 2 comments
I noticed that (starting with version 7.0.0) the macOS/darwin builds are Soundnode-darwin-x64.tar.xz
I just thought it was worth mentioning that xz is not included in macOS by default. .zip would be a safer choice. Even tar.bz2 would be more preferable than .tar.xz.
FWIW, I un-archived the .tar.xz version and then re-compressed it with .tar.bz2 and .zip. Here are the file sizes (in bytes):
62044259 Soundnode-darwin-x64.zip
51076892 Soundnode-darwin-x64.tar.bz2
39194300 Soundnode-darwin-x64.tar.xz
So while .tar.xz is a more efficient compression, it's only a difference of ~12 MB compared to .tar.bz2
Upon closer examination, macOS does lack a separate xz command, however, the default "Archive Utility.app" can open these files, as can the tar command with a simple tar vxf Soundnode-darwin-x64.tar.xz
So I'm going to close this issue as being a non-issue.
Ah thanks for that. Yeah, went with tar.xz as from what I remember, any unix-like system should support the format out of the box.