Re: Bochs - Free PC emulator
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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