Re: [pygame] dmg files vs .zip files on OSX?
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:01 PM, James Paige b...@hamsterrepublic.comwrote: 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.
Re: [pygame] dmg files vs .zip files on OSX?
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
[pygame] dmg files vs .zip files on OSX?
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,
