I'm getting them. Also, a zipped DMG is probably not super-confusing?
Seth On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:25 AM, James Paige <[email protected]> wrote: > Annd. I remembered why that wouldn't work. No compression. I feel like TMC > discovered all of this years ago, and I am just now remember what he said > and thinking that I am figuring it out myself ;P > > Would a zipped dmg be more or less confusing than a tar.gz? > > Also, is anybody even getting these mailing list posts? I never get copies > of my own, so I don't even know if the list server is working right now. > > --- > James > > > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 3:01 PM, James Paige <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I just discovered/remembered something really nifty. >> >> So the reason we went with .tar.gz on Mac was because we couldn't figure >> out how to create .dmg files. >> >> .dmg files are normally Disk images formatted as HSF+ and although tools >> for formatting as HSF+ exist on Windows and Linux, we could not find any >> good simple ones that we could redistribute. >> >> Turns out that the important thing about a .dmg file is that it is a disk >> image. HFS+ happens to be the preffered format, but any format supported by >> Macs should work. >> >> In particular, .iso works. >> >> I tried building a .iso image, renamed it to .dmg, and my Mac was able to >> open it smoothly with no problems at all. >> >> Tools to generate .iso images are far more ubiquitous, so maybe we can >> find one that we can redistribute and we can use it to build .dmg files >> directly from the Export Games menu :) >> >> --- >> James > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ohrrpgce mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org > _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
