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Re: Bochs - Free PC emulator
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Re: Bochs - Free PC emulator


  • Subject: Re: Bochs - Free PC emulator
  • From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:47:44 +1000

Disk images are, bar none, the best way to distribute an app on Mac OS X. If at all possible, you should use this method.

If at all possible, you shouldn't.

Disc images are the slowest and most unwieldy way of doing things. Any gzip/sit/installer/pkg can be double clicked and handled appropriately and quickly. Disk images are slow - even *slower* now under Jaguar - to mount, and require excessive window opening, shuffling, and copying. They also still have issues being ejected.

I would strongly encourage developers to seek alternatives to any sort of disk image format. The only unique function they have is where you need a byte-perfect copy of a disc, such as if you distribute a bootable image or somesuch. Otherwise, there are many better ways.

On a related note, developers should be careful with packages on pre-Jaguar, as the 100-meg bug will make packages unusable on some systems.

Therefore the best format is some variation of a custom installer, or a sit/zip/gzip/bz2/etc archive. Use an installer only if you need to install items into Library folders (and/or need special privileges to do so), or other specific and immobile places. Otherwise, any compressed archive will do nicely.

Wade Tregaskis
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