Re: Installer UI advices

[M. Uli Kusterer]

At 3:27 Uhr -0500 17.03.2005, Jeremy Tregunna wrote:
> On 17-Mar-05, at 3:02 AM, Robert Slover wrote:
>
> > [...] -- so it is possible to compress a directory on, say, VMS, 
> > ftp it to some other VMS system, uncompress it and have a usable 
> > directory hierarchy
>
> Except GNUstep doesn't run on VMS. And if for example, you're also 
> talking about resource forks, .zip files don't preserve resource 
> forks, so you're back at square one. There is a tar like program 
> (think it's called xar or something similar) which does preserve 
> resource forks. Just a thought.

Apple has devised a scheme for storing resource forks in ZIP 
archives. Basically, they have a folder named __MACOSX that 
replicates the entire directory hierarchy, and contains the resource 
forks of those files that have any.

That's the same scheme OS X uses on UFS volumes. Considering 
GNUstep's innate appeal to Mac developers, it'd probably be smart to 
recognize this special folder and warn the user about resources and 
not unpack the folder.
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M. Uli Kusterer
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