Re: [OT] Software Delivery
Re: [OT] Software Delivery
- Subject: Re: [OT] Software Delivery
- From: Evan Schoenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:28:23 -0600
Also, if you prefer a complete GUI for .dmg creation, including seeing
how your background image and such will look, you may want to check out
Mindvision Software's shareware FileStorm
(http://www.mindvision.com/filestorm.asp). I'm a happily registered
user.
I am not associated with Mindvision in any way.
-Evan
On Jan 29, 2005, at 6:48 AM, Darkshadow wrote:
On Jan 28, 2005, at 10:52 PM, Andrew Farmer wrote:
On 28 Jan 2005, at 19:38, Chaz McGarvey wrote:
On Jan 28, 2005, at 8:20 PM, Andrew Farmer wrote:
On 28 Jan 2005, at 17:00, Jerry Krinock wrote:
on 05/01/22 14:53, Charles Srstka at email@hidden
wrote:
I agree with those who have said that the best way to distribute
files
is in a .dmg. It's the standard, all users know what to do with
them,
and it won't mangle any files or attributes.
OK, but is there any way to make a .dmg less than 550 KB? My app
compresses
to 350 KB, and when I release a new version I sometimes go over my
ISP's
monthly download limit of 1 GB and have to hop to different
accounts.
Padding an wasted 200 KB on each one puts me over the top a lot
faster.
Compressed disk images. Create the image normally, then convert it
to a compressed image.
Or...
hdiutil create -imagekey zlib-level=9 -format UDZO -srcfolder
<srcfolder> <outputfile>
Or that, yes. Same idea.
Make sure the disk image you're compressing only has a single
partition on it. If it has more than one partition (which I think
Disk Utility creates by default if you're using that), it compresses
all of the partitions so the resulting disk image is larger. That's
probably the reason why your .dmg file is 550 KB. I've found that a
disk image that contains partitions doesn't ever get below 250 KB, but
one that only contains a single partition can get to 85 KB (probably
smaller, too - just depends on how small whatever the disk image
contains can be compressed).
I don't know if there is a way to create a single partition image with
Disk Utility, but the above command should make one. BTW, you can
compress an existing image with:
hdiutil convert -imagekey zlib-level=9 -format UDZO -o <outputimage>
<inputimage>
Darkshadow (aka Michael Nickerson)
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