{"id":2242,"date":"2003-05-28T18:09:24","date_gmt":"2003-05-28T21:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=464"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:54:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:54:57","slug":"re-pros-and-cons-of-dmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/28\/re-pros-and-cons-of-dmg\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Pros and Cons of .dmg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding our previous discussion <a href=\"\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=443#443\">here<\/a> (and a few posts before that), <a href=\"http:\/\/nslog.com\/\">Erik J. Barzesky<\/a> writes that he <a href=\"http:\/\/nslog.com\/archives\/2003\/05\/25\/sit_to_dmg.php\">prefers .dmg files<\/a> for archival purposes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The time for DropStuff\/Deluxe has passed. I find myself using .tgz on the command line for files I know to be safe (i.e. those without resource forks). StuffIt Expander will continue to be useful for at least a little while, but for now, .dmg is the way I intend to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still use DropStuff (part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffit.com\/stuffit\/lite\/index.html\">Stuffit Lite<\/a>) for temporarily archiving installed applications or data files, but I agree with Erik that .dmg is the best way for archiving things.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding software distribution, my experience is that most users also want to archive the original .dmg, so that&#8217;s what I use for my own products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding our previous discussion here (and a few posts before that), Erik J. Barzesky writes that he prefers .dmg files for archival purposes: The time for DropStuff\/Deluxe has passed. I find myself using .tgz on the command line for files I know to be safe (i.e. those without resource forks). StuffIt Expander will continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","category-software","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-Aa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}