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: Doug Brown <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:59:40 +1000
On 20 April 2011 21:25, Ulf Dunkel <email@hidden> 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.
I couldn't disagree more. DMG are a far superior method of software
distribution and I have not seen more software distributors recently
using the zip archive format in preference of DMG as you have stated.
> (And, by the way: DMG views looks rather ugly when you have hidden files
> switched visible.)
This is a non-issue. I would be curious to know the need for showing
hidden files.
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