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| steve74 wrote: Yes, if it's just for Macs to install, wrap it inside a disk image (.dmg) file. | |
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Why not just zip it? Disk images are a very unsatisfactory way of delivering downloads, very unintuitive.
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | .MPKG packages on the internet |
Short version : I have an .MPKG package I need to give people to download via the web (an IIS server to be specific). Obviously to every other OS .MPKG 'files' are in fact directories and so they appear as such when the URL is accessed on a Mac. Is there any way I can convince IIS to treat the MPKG bundle as a single file? I've tried MIME types and various other things, none of them seem to help at all. Jon |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: .MPKG packages on the internet |
I'd probably look at zipping it, or putting it in a disk image, I think most Mac users would expect opening a DMG or zip file to install something. |
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| Author: | steve74 [ Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: .MPKG packages on the internet |
Yes, if it's just for Macs to install, wrap it inside a disk image (.dmg) file. |
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| Author: | smithsocksimon [ Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:11 pm ] | |||||||||
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Why not just zip it? Disk images are a very unsatisfactory way of delivering downloads, very unintuitive. |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:19 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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I would say that many Mac users know what to do with a disk image. It's not exactly unintuitive, maybe overkill? Having said that, watching some ex-die-hard Windows users using a Mac, perhaps a zip file would be better. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:37 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: .MPKG packages on the internet | ||||||||||||||||||
Ever downloaded a zipped disk image? Very silly. |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: .MPKG packages on the internet |
Does the default decompressor decompress bzip2 files? If you do choose to compress it I always find tar.bz2 files have much better compression. |
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| Author: | smithsocksimon [ Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:41 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: .MPKG packages on the internet | |||||||||
I have, madness! |
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