Building app distributions - some best practices?

[Thomas McGrath III]

OSX has builtin zip. It is under the actions button labeled "Create 
Archive of..."

OSX will also unzip via "BOMArchiveHelper" which is built in as well.

Of course it is best if zip files are created on the Mac since Windows 
zip files are not always predictable in preserving the resource fork. 
But OSX zip will do the job.

Stuffit will unzip as well.

Tom

On Feb 14, 2004, at 7:25 PM, Ian Wood wrote:

>
> On 14 Feb 2004, at 23:49, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
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>> sit, zip and dmg all work well via email/http etc.
>>
>
> <snip>
>
> Are you sure about zip?  My experience is that applications never work 
> on Mac 9 or X after being zipped, as it doesn't preserve the resource 
> fork.  I find sit & dmg to be safer for apps.
>
> Ian Wood
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