Re: Using Zip executable in Cocoa Application
Re: Using Zip executable in Cocoa Application
- Subject: Re: Using Zip executable in Cocoa Application
- From: Dan Saul <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:27:22 -0600
Well if the user wants to why stop them? Putting useless restrictions
only hampers the potential uses people could come up with.
On 18/12/05, Rick Langschultz <email@hidden> wrote:
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Actually I don't want the user to know that there are XML files in
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that directory. It is an open document format however it will not be
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feasible for the user to edit the XML data. Also the contents will be
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in zip format which may or may not be password protected. I do
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believe iWork 2005 uses a form of the tar.gz file format to archive
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an xml file format inside as well as images, and thumbnails.
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I have a piece of software that uses Sleepycats DBXML for its
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processing. There is a server, and a client which doesn't have to
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connect to the server to provide database updates. These xml files
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are cracked open and then distributed to a directory, indexed, and
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then the user can query, select, etc. All in xml formatting. But the
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zip file allows them to move around with the files and not stay on
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one machine.
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There will be a windows, linux, and apple version of this software so
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zlib is going to be a better choice for the application.
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Thank you all for the ideas and feedback...
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Rick
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On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Scott Ribe wrote:
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>> The Applications folder is not
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>> one of those places that you can assume that you can write to, and
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>> it's not reasonable to expect the user to change access for you if
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>> you can't write there.
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> I think by "Applications suite folder" he meant the folder he would
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> install
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> in /Applications, not /Applications itself. Whether or not that is
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> writable
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> to all users could be under the control of an installer.
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> Whether or not to use an Applications Support folder, depends on
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> whether or
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> not it is reasonable for the user to expect the data to follow the
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> application suite with a Finder copy.
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