Re: using dmg files (fwd)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 24 Sep 2004, at 09:32, stefan@agentfarms.net wrote:

> Citát Alex Perez <aperez@student.santarosa.edu>:
>
> > Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> >
> > > I wonder why apple uses that format. Can we do something
> > > similar like using iso or cramfs format instead? So we can loop 
> > > mount the
> > > image then drag and drop to the Apps directory or wherever?
> > we could but there's no point
>
> Why not? If gworkspace handled 'mounting' or something analogous to 
> mounting of
> such 'package' files transparently, then it will make download and 
> installation
> much easier. no third application for opening the package, it is opened
> directly in GW.

I'm not sure that there is anything to be gained by avoiding gnutar ... 
and if there was,
GW could open an archive directly using standard libraries for 
gzip/archive access.
I think it's desirable to have GW able to open archives anyway since 
other non-gnustep
code comes as .tar.gz (and other archive formats).

> and AFAIK, ISO (or similar 'packages') can be randomly accessed
> faster than .tar.gz.

IIRC a tar archive has a table of contents at the start, allowing for 
rapid access.
However, I don't think speed of random access to parts of an 
uninstalled application is an issue.