Hi All, I let my Apple Developer subscription lapse because I wasn’t using it. Now I’m back to where I’ll likely need to start it up again. Some of my projects have multiple scripts and executables. To add to the fun, I combine everything in a zip file for MacOS, Windows and Linux. My primary conc…

Wow! 85 Views, 5 Days and nobody has any feedback? Maybe this just got overlooked, so just wanted to bump this :slight_smile:

[image] Steve Batson: I want everything in a single zip file in order to simplify distribution since I include versions for each OS. Is anyone else doing something similar? Well, AppWrapper can create and notarize zips (as well as .pkg files), and can also make Intel and Apple Silicon-specifi…

[image] Steve Batson: I want everything in a single zip file in order to simplify distribution since I include versions for each OS. I have never downloaded a zip file with apps for Mac, Windows and Linux in the same zip. If I had to distribute software I will never zip together. [image] …

[image] AlbertoD: If I had to distribute software I will never zip together. Nor I. But the gentleman said what he wanted to do, and I gave my best shot at an answer. :slight_smile:

Besides convenience of having it all in a single zip file, there’s a reason I do it that I won’t go into here.

If your app comes alone, you could zip it. Then after download Safari unzips it and people can launch it or move it to applications folder. In any other case you better go with the disk image. Custom background, additional files included and multiple applications possible. Just like the Xojo downl…

Ok, we will forget the zip for now. I see your questions are: [image] Steve Batson: The question because I have not used Xojo to sign and notarize anything, how well does Xojo do the job? I have seen some users having problems figuring out the certificates and how everything needs to be conf…

Convenient for whom? Not for the user. I doubt this will work correctly with signing. If there is an unsigned .exe in a ZIP, this will give issues with AV.

Don’t do this, for whatever reason. Period. Use dmg instead as macOS users expect this. The main reason why no-one reacted in the first place.

Agree with others that zipping all 3 apps (macOS, Windows, Linux) together does not sound like a great idea. But if you must do that, I would recommend you do something like this: Zip file macOSapp.dmg Windows App.zip Linux App.zip In other words, include the macOS app as a DMG file within …

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