[Ohrrpgce] .dmg format for Distribute Game on Mac

[James Paige]

Annd. I remembered why that wouldn't work. No compression. I feel like TMC
discovered all of this years ago, and I am just now remember what he said
and thinking that I am figuring it out myself ;P

Would a zipped dmg be more or less confusing than a tar.gz?

Also, is anybody even getting these mailing list posts? I never get copies
of my own, so I don't even know if the list server is working right now.

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James



On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 3:01 PM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> I just discovered/remembered something really nifty.
>
> So the reason we went with .tar.gz on Mac was because we couldn't figure
> out how to create .dmg files.
>
> .dmg files are normally Disk images formatted as HSF+ and although tools
> for formatting as HSF+ exist on Windows and Linux, we could not find any
> good simple ones that we could redistribute.
>
> Turns out that the important thing about a .dmg file is that it is a disk
> image. HFS+ happens to be the preffered format, but any format supported by
> Macs should work.
>
> In particular, .iso works.
>
> I tried building a .iso image, renamed it to .dmg, and my Mac was able to
> open it smoothly with no problems at all.
>
> Tools to generate .iso images are far more ubiquitous, so maybe we can
> find one that we can redistribute and we can use it to build .dmg files
> directly from the Export Games menu :)
>
> ---
> James
>
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