[Ham-Mac] OS X development

[David Anderson]

on 17/2/02 6:00 pm, Steve Muncy at smuncy@mac.com wrote:

> Perhaps I am missing something here....but the few OSX files that I
> distribute, I've stuffed and binhexed with StuffIt, yielding a
> FileName.sit.hqx file. I've had no problem downloading these under OSX at
> all, and it works under OSX and OS8/9. I'm not opposed to distribution
> through .dmg files, but why should I do it that way? Is there  a problem
> with the stuffit format, or an inherent advantage to using a .dmg file???

Hi Steve, Good question!

One thing with .dmg is that they can only be opened in OS X with OS X disk
copy so it does stop folks from wasting their time trying them on OS 9 and
below.

Although my RB OS X application is carbon, I have specifically stopped it
from being used in OS 9 carbon because I have made use of some of the better
screen buffering in OS X and it flickers like mad if run in OS 9. (I make a
different Classic version that uses Offscreen buffers for OS 9 users).

I used to distribute as .sea but realised this is a pain for OS X users
because the .sea extraction engine is a classic application.


73
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