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Simple proposal.. How about a zipping an application and merely naming it .appz (or just plain zip) The only reason why Mac application can't be distributed li
by atlbeer 17y ago
Simple proposal.. How about a zipping an application and merely naming it .appz (or just plain zip)
The only reason why Mac application can't be distributed like Windows .exe files is that Mac applications are actually directories. Excluding .pkg installers 99.99% of the time the .dmg file is merely just a container for the single .app directory.
Safari automatically unpacks .zip files by default on download. Where's the mystery here. Why bother with dmg in the first place
- burke 17y agoThis would be a huge improvement, in my opinion. The only thing I would change is to rename .appz to .zapp :P
- blasdel 17y agoWhy do they need to be named differently at all? One is a directory, the other a file -- no ambiguity. The Finder and LaunchServices are the only bits of code that care anyway.
- yason 17y agoSo, leeching your appz directly will cause no need for dmg? (-:
- blasdel 17y agoThis is already implemented on the iPhone. The main reason they haven't done it on OS X is that it would be completely backwards-incompatible. They should have done it in Snow Leopard (an easy choice if your app uses GC), but if they did they didn't tell anyone. Instead they added optional zip/deflate compression to HFS, and used it for most of the system files.