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Re: using dmg files (fwd)
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M. Uli Kusterer |
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Re: using dmg files (fwd) |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:02:58 +0200 |
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In article <mailman.3872.1096019893.1998.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> wrote:
> A .tar.gz file requires you to fiddle with the command line. Something
> John Doe's grandma and even the average computer user isn't very savy
> on.
Uh... couldn't that be solved by simply providing a GUI around gnutar?
Or even better, why not just integrate it with GWorkspace? Surely it
wouldn't be too hard to allow unpacking an archive?
I have Cocoa source code that uses NSTask to call upon gnutar to
uncompress and unpack files. I can contribute that if you want.
I personally don't like disk images too much. They're simply the only
compression and packing method that shipped with MacOS X 10.0 and didn't
swallow Mac resource forks or require command-line access (StuffIt
wasn't ready). 10.2 introduced support for .zip archives in the Finder,
BTW. That's a much better approach, IMHO.
Just my opinion,
-- Uli
http://www.zathras.de
Re: Fwd: using dmg files (fwd), Jeremy Tregunna, 2004/09/24