Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
- Subject: Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 21:52:20 +0200
On vendredi, ao{t 9, 2002, at 08:15 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 12:42 PM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:
This leads to some developers not creating compressed Disk Image since
they have to manually modify them (add a background image, a custom
icon, etc...).
Since DiskCopy creates 5,10,whatever MB Disk Image, you need to
compress them.
excellent compression is built into this since 10.1. Sit is not
necessary
hqx is never necessary. fix the server you store it on
Ok, from my lame 2 years experience of releasing Software packages on
the Web, I learnt this:
- .hqx may be necessary when the download is not made on a Macintosh.
- .sit is the de-facto standard for compression on Mac OS (9/X). I'm not
saying it's the best one or anything else, It's just the one users are
used to.
In the tests I made, compression with Disk Image was worse than with
.sit or .gz.
For the record, the format of archives I got from the apple dts is
dmg.sit.zip.
For another record, this is an excerpt of an e-mail I got for one of the
Freewares I'm working on. The archive format involved here is .dmg.gz:
"I have tried downloading your preference pane to try it out and it has
produced the most bizarre effects I have ever seen on a Macintosh, since
1984. Specifically, when I expand your archive, it expands into a folder
with a blank icon (title bar only). This folder, as soon as it is
touched in icon mode, disappears from the desktop and cannot be found
ever again. If the window is open in list mode, trying to turn down the
disclosure triangle gives a permission error (as in "you don't have
enough") followed by a similar disappearance.
The only deduction possible is that you have set up your archive such
that the downloader has no permissions to anything except the
overarching archive file. Once expanded, the file system deletes it for
some unknown reason. It is not merely hidden -- I have tools to locate
invisible files and it cannot be located at all.
I find this entire experience rather creepy and I don't think I'll
repeat it."
This very same person wrote back later:
"Hi and thanks. I finally managed to get a proper file out of it by
using Interarchy instead of a web browser. Just for future reference,
browsers often have trouble with gnu-zipped files. I would create
Stuffit archives if I were you."
Just my $0.02 with 2 years of dividends.
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