Re: using dmg files

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 2004-09-22 18:11:53 +0800 Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> 
wrote:

> Am 22.09.2004 um 11:28 schrieb Rogelio Serrano:
>
> > Can we use the dmg file format for distribution of gnustep 
> > binaries?
>
> As long as you distribute Darwin / OS X binaries, .dmg's 
> should be fine. As 
> they can be compressed internally and can be mounted in it's 
> compressed 
> state, they're very handy.
>
> I'm not aware of any tool mounting such images on any other 
> OS, however. Few 
> of them whould support the (recommended) HFS+ filesystem 
> anyways.
>
>
> Markus
>
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I wonder why apple uses that format. Can we do something 
similar like using iso format instead? So we can loop mount the 
image then drag and drop to the Apps directory or wherever?

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