[Ohrrpgce] Mac OS X port

Keith Gable ziggy at ignition-project.com
Tue Oct 5 05:43:59 PDT 2010


On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:35 PM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
> > So you're suggesting not using a .dmg at all, right?
> > I thought that Finder could open .bz2 files, but maybe I was mistaken.
> > And there are no other common Mac compression formats we can use?
>
> We can use a compressed dmg when we are bundling from a mac, and fall
> back to a zip if we are bundling a mac app from a Windows or Linux
> computer.


I *think* Darwin has the hdiutil utility that would let you compress
DMGs correctly. Archive Utility supports all of the standard Unix
archives.

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