change in distribution format

[theseer]

change in distribution format

[nex3]

The change was made to fix sass/dart-sass-embedded#78.

[ntkme]

For macOS, the self contained binary does not have proper code signing. For linux, the self contained binary breaks with ld-linux or patchelf due to lack of real ELF linking. It means that the self-contained binary for macOS and linux are only suitable for running locally, and is not ready for distribution.

If you still want to build a self contained binary for local use, see https://github.com/sass/homebrew-sass/blob/master/Formula/sass.rb

[nex3]

google/dart_cli_pkg#67 is tracking this support, but as @ntkme has outlined there are serious blockers at the moment.

[theseer]

Thanks for the quick answers as well as the pointers!

I'm still a bit confused though: The older releases didn't seem to have had the issues mentioned - at least there used to be single binaries in the distribution archive.

Or does that imply they were actually broken - at least in some cases - and just "nobody" noticed?