On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:18:53PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Peter da Silva wrote:
> > Why in the name of all that's unholy do programs on Windows generally
> > unpack or download files to a temporary location and then *copy*
> > them to the final location, instead of at least *moving* them or
> > (god forbid) downloading them to the right location in the first
> > place?
> Sadly, Apple decided that disk images are the bestest way to distribute
> software and so effectively replicates this hate.
Disk images *are* the best way. The reason being that some software
authors are still stupid enough to use multiple forks per file.
Therefore their files will break unless every single piece of software
involved between them uploading it to a server and me installing it
talks Moronic Fork Language.
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