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Re: now it really gets weird

Hi Michael.

> I posted awhile ago, about not being able to e-mail apps, but this is gettng
> bizarre.
>
> It turns out that only Apple's Mail client will allow me to select apps as
> attachments, but has anyone ever done that? When you then become the
> recipient, the apps are broken down into many separate files!
>
> At first I thought it was something in the cocoa development process, but
> then I attached the Chess and Clock apps and sent them to myself. Even
> those apps are fragmented into many files.
>
> What's going on here? I can't be developing with cocoa, if I can't e-mail
> the finished apps.

Stop and think about it for a moment. Except for a few Carbon apps, most
application bundles under Mac OS X are 'packages' which are nothing more
than a folder with a Finder bit twiddled to tell the Finder to treat the
bundle as a single, double-clickable item. Apps like Entourage (and probably
a few others) aren't modern enough to treat a file package properly, so they
simply treat them like a folder full of items. All you need to do is
manually stuff or compress an app bundle before sending it so that the email
application deals with a single binary file instead of a folder.

Brock Brandenberg

----- industrial design @ www.bergdesign.com ------
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