to .dmg or to .zip
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Which is best or most common, I noticed when I added my game to apple.com they wanted it .zip yet I thought .dmg was the standard.. now I am confused. |
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I think .dmg was in favor for a while until people realized that most users just drag stuff out of the disk image and onto the dock. this means that when they click the dock icon the disk image has to mount before the app can run. stick with zip. Cheers Charlie |
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Interesting. I'd tend towards dmg. You can customize a dmg with an alias (shortcut) to the Applications folder, which the user can drag the app icon onto. Zips are just a pain, in that you have to extract them, and then either leave the file where it extracted, or find somewhere to put it. |
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bah I hate Mac's =S whats wronge with a good old .exe installer. |
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dmg They are sexy. |
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hum, well I decided to go with .zip in 10.5 when you download a zip it automaticaly is unzipped and added to the download folder. .zip is also much smaller then a .dmg |
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.zip is also much smaller then a .dmg Should be about the same, if you are using a compressed .dmg |
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When I was making a .dmg I had the choice between compressed or read/write (not both), and I needed a read/write DMG cus the game writes some files to the local folder. Oh BTW Brucey your cross-platform compile thing worked a treat, I complied a universal binary on my hackintosh and it run on that old 350mhz imac I picked up. Good stuff. |
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cus the game writes some files to the local folder. Naughty! You should stick those in the proper places... which I assume you already know :-) |
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but its just a harmless config file =P |
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There are cozy, system-friendly places for those :-) |