Re: Any up-to-date documentation about os x software distribution?
Re: Any up-to-date documentation about os x software distribution?
- Subject: Re: Any up-to-date documentation about os x software distribution?
- From: Iceberg-Dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:08:25 +0200
On Apr 20, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Ulf Dunkel wrote:
Technically spoken, I see that more and more software distributors
stop distributing .dmg packages in favor of .zip archives. We also
prefer .zip archives which are automatically unzipped and checked
in the main available browsers. Users are used to drag apps into
the Applications folder themselves, but don't always want to
overwrite existing versions with the same app name. So .zip
archives are a more convenient way.
The issue with drag & drop dmg and zip files are that the owner and
group are not correct in the end. The trend seems to be for
applications to be root:wheel in /Applications.
(And, by the way: DMG views looks rather ugly when you have hidden
files switched visible.
Not really a concern for 95% of Mac users, fortunately.
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