Re: [pygame] dmg files vs .zip files on OSX?

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 08:34:33AM +0100, René Dudfield wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
>    it seemed pip used to mistake all .zip files for being source packages,
>    and got confused by our .mpkg.zip binaries for OSX.  That has been patched
>    in pip now, but it might take another 5 or so years before everyone
>    upgrades...  So, I need to know if .dmg files for OSX are ok?  I seem to
>    recall some reason why .zip were preferred over .dmg files... but I can
>    not remember the reason!  I think .dmg files are ok now, since major
>    projects like VLC etc all use .dmg files.  So maybe the reason does not
>    exist anymore with modern OSX. I plan on creating new .dmg files from the
>    existing .zip files, and linking to them from the download page.
> 
>    tldr;
>    Are .dmg files ok for binaries on OSX now?
> 
>    cheers,

Somebody can correct me if I am wrong, but I think the problem with an 
unzipped .dmg file was that there was no cross-platform tool for 
creating a compressed .dmg file, so if you wanted tocreate a compressed 
.dmg and you didn't have a Mac, you couldn't. A uncompressed 
unencrypted .dmg file is just a disk image in HFS+ format, but the 
compression and encryption are special somehow.

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James Paige