On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, D P wrote:
For MAC dmg generation... any suggestions?
Well, if you were to follow the feel of a Mac, you wouldn't have an install at all. Us Mac people prefer drag-and-drop installs, that is, have your app, your readme, and your help files right inside your disk image. Take advantage of Mach-O builds. Because they are really folders, you can put things inside what a Mac user would see as the application. There is no real need for having all your resources in the same directory as the application that the users double-click.
Also, it's also nice when the uninstall involves simply trashing the application.
As for making the image itself, I just make a folder containing what I want, then I tell Apple's Disk Utility to convert the folder to a disk image.
When people download the image, they will open it, it will mount like a hard drive, they will copy the application and anything else they want into their Applications folder, and then unmount the image and trash the image file.
forgive me if you are a Mac person and this is all second-hand knowledge...
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