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Can we please have a third file in the zip? * format.txt * mydata.csv * .DS_Store It will be there if the zip was created on a Mac so might as well include
by Hackbraten 5y ago
Can we please have a third file in the zip?
* format.txt
* mydata.csv
* .DS_Store
It will be there if the zip was created on a Mac so might as well include it in the standard.
- kaeruct 5y agoI cannot tell if this is a joke or not. If you are serious, then what about just ignoring any files in the zip that are not specified in the standard?
- teknopaul 5y agoThe point is to proliferate any decisions taken by Apple because Apple = God and thefore such decisions are beyond human understanding. You cant reason your way out of Apple being right _always_.
- munk-a 5y agoNo, we can't - since people who aren't on Macs may potentially need to use this standard and that metadata descriptor file has failed to gain any adoption traction outside of Apple. That said - all sorts of programs that bundle files inject rando metadata files and if there was a codified standard it should be flexible enough to ignore these files (possibly agreeing to never require any files to function that lead with a `.` since most of the random junk that gets thrown into zip files tends to at least consistently follow that habit.