Re: Why do "loose" nibs take precedence over nibs in .lproj?
Re: Why do "loose" nibs take precedence over nibs in .lproj?
- Subject: Re: Why do "loose" nibs take precedence over nibs in .lproj?
- From: Evan Schoenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:49:50 -0600
On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:48 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
At 14:49 Uhr -0600 20.01.2005, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
Older versions of Stuffit Expander will mess up resource forks
included in ZIP files created with the built-in ZIP archiving...
That's why I said: "If you can require a sufficiently recent MacOS X
version".
*nod* I was just clarifying from my experience.
In addition, I thought this was Cocoa-Dev? How many Cocoa apps these
days actually still make use of the resource fork? Keep in mind that
Apple even recommends you don't put any data in resource forks that
you can't re-generate. So, if you're adhering to the current
guidelines, this shouldn't be a problem.
Touché. It was something unexpected in my app, a resource I was using,
which got messed up by a 10.2 user using Stuffit to unzip. It's been a
while, so I don't remember the file type, but it was a bizarre thing to
debug... "Why isn't that showing up? It shows up on every test system I
can access..."
so you have to depend on the user using a new version or using the
built-in expanding. In my experience, a .dmg is the way to go; it
also provides for a more intuitive experience (you can include a
message like "To install, drag this to your Applications folder" or
whatever).
Well, I personally don't care much for disk images anymore. It feels
kind of un-intuitive to me to download a file and get a new disk on
your desktop. But yeah, if you need to 10.0 or 10.1, and you include
resource forks, or you somehow need the additional design gizmos you
can do in a DMG, use that.
My mother is confused every time she downloads something, it
automounts, and then she is supposed to eject it. The DMG is
ubiquitous, though, and at least can answer the question "Now what?"
from a first time user, even if the post-install situations leaves a
lot to be desired.
-Evan
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