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Re: Carbon APP Bundle "Packer" for OSX?

- resources that are meant for all platforms (this is app-specific
for you) go into a custom pack file; it's trivial to write a
cross-platform packing system if you want one, and it's not even
that hard to make a half-decent one. For this sort of thing, a ZIP
file probably is a decent choice for starters... you can find
open-source solutions for opening and parsing the ZIP file's
contents.

i've been thinking of this argument as well, and actually i don't like the idea of writing 'easy custom code' to solve the problem, when most modern OS's support the 'folder compressed to disk image' operation themselves.. and also provide the hooks to virtualize that into an already-existing API

("why write another API when i'm already using one?")


The resources like nibs should never even appear on Win32/*nix so I
don't see how those could be an issue in any way, unless you're just
obsessing over flat-file formats now :)

well, yeah, i'm obsessing about it for sure, but you guys are smart, so its fun.

--

;

Jay Vaughan

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 >Carbon APP Bundle "Packer" for OSX? (From: Jay Vaughan <email@hidden>)


 >Re: Carbon APP Bundle "Packer" for OSX? (From: Scott Thompson <email@hidden>)


 >Re: Carbon APP Bundle "Packer" for OSX? (From: Jay Vaughan <email@hidden>)


 >Re: Carbon APP Bundle "Packer" for OSX? (From: Bryan Pietrzak <email@hidden>)


 >Re: Carbon APP Bundle "Packer" for OSX? (From: Jay Vaughan <email@hidden>)


 >Re: Carbon APP Bundle "Packer" for OSX? (From: John Stiles <email@hidden>)























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