[Ham-Mac] OS X development

[Chris Smolinski]

David Anderson wrote:
> 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.

Good point! Not everything Carbon runs well under OS9. 
 
> 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.

I'll probably start distributing as .dmg shortly, once I get the chance
to play with it a little.

I've been distributing as .sit files, which seems to work (assuming
folks have Stuffit installed, perhaps a bad assumption). I initally
distributed as .sea, then got the flood of "why does your program need
Classic" emails. It seems that there's a core group of OSX users who
despise Classic, probably related to the group who think that Cocoa apps
are the only true OSX apps, and Carbon is somehow "fake"  ;-)  (I do
understand that running Classic can slow things down a little, and some
people resist even installing the Classic OS on their system, so I can
see the issue) 

I'm using a mix of Classic OSX native apps. I am still running an old
version of Eudora (3.x I think), plus my versions of BBEdit and Anarchie
are quite old as well. I use IE 5 instead of Netscape 6, which takes an
ungodly amount of time to launch. When I really want to do some quick
web browsing, though, I launch Netscape 4 in Classic. And I still use
ResEdit, so another Classic app. I gave up in Ircle and went to Snak for
the IRC client, which is Carbon and has a nicer UI, IMHO. I'm no where
close to only using OSX apps. Hey, some of the apps I use are probably
built for 68k!


73
Chris
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