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Re: [OT] Disk image creation
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Re: [OT] Disk image creation


  • Subject: Re: [OT] Disk image creation
  • From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:27:55 -0500


On Mar 6, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Alexander von Below wrote:

"[An internet enabled disk image] improves the manual install experience by performing a few tedious tasks for the user."
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/ SoftwareDistribution/Containers/chapter_3_section_3.html


In the case of this particular app, I have to agree. The user expectes "MyProduct.app", right? With an internet enabled image, she

Are we only talking about female users?

will find this in the default download location. I would think, as expected.

I'm not sure why it should be expected. Most of the third-party products whose disk images I download do not use Internet-enabled disk images, so I expect to see a disk image file I can mount, examine its contents, unmount, mount again, and so on.


But, "Mungo only pawn in game of life", I am glad to listen to arguments telling me that internet enabled images are a work of the devil. So, if you wish to expand, please do.

I won't go so far as to call them the work of the devil, but I don't want one for my product and I don't expect or want them when I download other products.


Larry


Alex


Am 07.03.2007 um 00:58 schrieb Michael Watson:

I gotta say, this is really annoying. If you distribute software, PLEASE don't use "Internet-enabled" disk images. Nothing is more confusing than data deleting itself.


-- m-s


On 06 Mar, 2007, at 18:28, Alexander von Below wrote:

# Internet enable the
hdiutil internet-enable -yes "$DISKPATH"


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