Anyone can examine the contents of a bundle using the Finder's Show Package
Contents contextual menu command.
darn, see .. you learn something new every day.. i've gotten so used
to using the Terminal, i don't even bother with contextual menus! ;)
No one hates the hemorrhaging of files we see on Mac OS X more than I do,
but don't do this. As Scott says, you'll give up OS support for accessing
resources and you'll add a performance hit because you'll have to add the
extra step of unzipping. You'll loose the ability to use nibs because you
can't load a nib from memory, and I really don't think want to be creating
and deleting unzipped items every time you need access to something,
assuming you could even do that (permissions and all).
but if i could safely loopback my own .dmg, i'd be quite happy; once
thats done, very little OSX-specific stuff would be needed at all,
and yet the app would run and do its thing.
i see the advantage to 'doing it the OSX way', but i also see the
looming threat to computer science that is 'packaged virtualization'..
There's nothing that forces you to use separate files for everything. You
can still use resource files and a lot of people do.
right, i've since learned that.
Go ahead and look, but I think it would be a mistake you'd eventually
regret.
its not a serious issue, honest. my app already runs great, and i'm
happy doing things the Apple way in the rest of my OSX work .. and if
it weren't for the fact that i had to work out how to 'do it really
easily on win32' (ack! spit!) today, i wouldn't even have bothered
thinking about 'a packed .EXE dilemna' ..
apologies to the list for the discourse..
--
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Jay Vaughan
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