Why Stuff DMGs if they get bigger?

michaelsanford

michaelsanford

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I was wondering if there was some kind of resource-fork-preserving reason that people Stuff their DMGs, despite the fact that the resulting SIT is 10-20% bigger than the DMG. I've noticed MANY people on VersionTracker do this (e.g., a recent app I downloaded was 620k as a SIT but 570k as the unarchived DMG).

There used to be value in .hqx-ing archives, but hasn't that time passed?

Thanks!
 
I think it's because .sit is recognized my more browsers, whereas, when I'm in Chimera, if I try to download a .dmg, it'll show a bunch of gibberish code, in the browser window, rather than automatically save it in a usable format. At least, that's why I don't mind.
 
What I dont' get is why they'll do a .dmg at all when the mounted disk image only contains one item anyway - just making a .sit (or .tar.gz, or .zip, or whatever) from the app would have worked just as well in most cases, you'd think.
 
>>think it's because .sit is recognized my more browsers, whereas, when I'm in Chimera, if I try to download a .dmg, it'll show a bunch of gibberish code, in the browser window

I get the jibberish too but sometimes the dmg will start downloading. If I get the gibberish I just go back and "save target as" to save the file. I think it has to with the web server and possibly mime types not the browser. But hey i could be wrong.
 
Originally posted by cabbage
I think it has to with the web server and possibly mime types not the browser. But hey i could be wrong.
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That's correct. A page full of gibberish is the result of a misconfigured web server and incorrectly configured MIME types. Chimera 0.6 and the newer builds go to great lengths to correct this problem, but ultimately the responsibility is on the webmaster of the server.
 
Yeah! I had a feeling that Apache was responsible for problems like that, but I didn't want to put my foot in my mouth in case I was horribly wrong :p
 
It's not really a problem. dmg is pretty knew. I guess we could inform the Apache Group to update their source/binaries. Since I use an Xserve w/Jaguar Server it's already in there (i think anyways) No time to check I just got LDAP working...centralized logins - yay!
 
Why the hell did I spell knew like that?

I was right, the mime type is in there. Here is a screenshot from the Server Settings GUI on 10.2.2. Server
 

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