In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank Niessink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Russell E Owen: > > At 5:05 PM +0200 2006-09-23, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >> ...I'm -0 on adding support for DMGs. Using a DMG doesn't buy > >> enough over a zip to warrant spending time on it. > > > > I was offering my own time. I've found them helpful for two reasons: > > - They can be reliably opened. I used to distribute my app as a zip > > archive, but for some reason some of my users tried to use old > > versions of Stuffit Expander instead of the built in BOMHelper to > > unpack them, resulting in an unusable application. I've had no such > > complaints since switching to .dmg files (yet; I suppose some user, > > somewhere, has figured out how to mis-open dmg files). > > - Convenient for the user: no disk clutter and need to discard the > > unpacked package when finished. Just eject. > > Maybe I missed it (or maybe there are disadvantages I am not aware of), > but I think I did not see the suggestion to simply use the hdiutil > command. The snippet below is part of the Makefile for building a Task > Coach release. The make.py is a distutil script that creates > TaskCoach.app. hdiutil then packages the app as a dmg: > > macdist: icons i18n > $(PYTHON) make.py py2app > hdiutil create -ov -imagekey zlib-level=9 -srcfolder > build/TaskCoach.app dist/TaskCoach.dmg Yes, I was thinking of using hdituil when I suggested it. However, Bob Ippolito would prefer that bdist_mpkg *not* be capable of making disk images of packages. He's fine with py2app making .dmg files so it may be worth submitting a patch for that. Are you offering? -- Russell _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
