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jonbwfc
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
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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.
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| Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:48 pm |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
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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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steve74
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:43 pm
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Location: Manchester
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Yes, if it's just for Macs to install, wrap it inside a disk image (.dmg) file.
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smithsocksimon
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Joined: Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:34 pm
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Why not just zip it? Disk images are a very unsatisfactory way of delivering downloads, very unintuitive. _________________I’m on the internet — blog | flickr | facebook | twitter
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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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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paulzolo
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Ever downloaded a zipped disk image? Very silly.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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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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smithsocksimon
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