On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:01 PM, James Paige <b...@hamsterrepublic.com>wrote:
> 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. > > --- > James Paige > ah, thanks. It seems mkfs.hfsplus can create dmg files on linux now. So, I don't think that's a problem now. Also, we require a mac to create the binary anyway (I don't think cross compiling works...). cu.
