Re: Standard OS X Compression format
Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- Subject: Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:37:51 +0100
On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 11:51 , Steve Gehrman wrote:
I think the Macintosh community would be better off if we could phase
out the .sit format and standardize on something that's open for Mac OS
X.
What should the new format be? .gz and .tar.gz don't include resource
forks.
Should we create a new format?
You should check out the xpak format, an initiative that is maintained
by Scott Anguish over at Stepwise. I don't remember the links to the web
site (if there ever was any), but you can sign up on the mailing list
like this:
email@hidden
That project has been rather slow lately though...
Personally I think that the best way to go about this would be to "hack"
(since it is private) into the DiskImages.framework and simply use the
.dmg format for this.
It already supports all the meta data we need (both Mac and Unix) plus
compression. The only thing that we need is an archiver / unarchiver
utility, instead of DiscCopy that for some strange reason creates and
mounts soft partitions out of these files. Wierd.
Regards,
j o a r