Opened 18 months ago
Last modified 6 months ago
#28809 assigned defect
Create build-specific installer for macOS
| Reported by: | pospeselr | Owned by: | pospeselr |
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| Priority: | Medium | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Applications/Tor Browser | Version: | |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | BugSmashFund |
| Cc: | tbb-team | Actual Points: | |
| Parent ID: | Points: | 2 | |
| Reviewer: | Sponsor: |
Description
Similar to #28546 modify macOS installer to allow Tor Browser release, alpha and nightly to be installed side-by-side.
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Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 18 months ago by
comment:2 Changed 17 months ago by
| Parent ID: | #25702 |
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comment:3 Changed 6 months ago by
| Keywords: | BugSmashFund added |
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| Points: | → 2 |
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The macOS "installer" is really just a pretty Finder window that is presented from a read-oly DMG-based volume (that way, copying the .app out of the installer window always makes a copy). If you embed a different icon in each .app "flavor" the installer window should show the correct one.
If we want to provide a way for people to install release, alpha, and nightly apps side-by-side, then we do not need to do anything: macOS users already do this today by creating a folder for each copy of the application. The folder will then contain
Tor Browser.appand theTorBrowser-Datafolder that is associated with that instance.On the other hand, if we want to allow users to put release, alpha, and nightly app bundles in
/Applicationsall at the same time we would need to do two things:(1) Use a unique name for the app bundle, e.g.,
Tor Browser Alpha.appvs.Tor Browser.app.(2) Use a unique name for the
TorBrowser-Datadirectory. Today when the application is launched from/Applications, the data directory is always created in the same location (~/Library/Application Support/Tor Browser-Data), and sharing that between release, alpha, and nightly could cause problems.My opinion is that it is not worth the engineering effort to do (2), but maybe we should do (1). Having a unique .app name and icon would definitely make it easier for people to keep track of which app is which.