Linux geeks creating mac installers...

[Martin Costabel]

Scott Ribe wrote:
>> That¹s still not as bad as early Mac OS X Epson installers:
> 
> My package was wrapped in 4 levels of encoding; yours was only wrapped in 3.
> HOWEVER, I'm willing to give you a 2x handicap on the .hqx and .sea because
> those were particularly stupid, for a total of 5 "encoding equivalents". On
> the other hand tar->bz2->tar is also particularly stupid, so maybe...

Was the result really a tar file? Or was it a bzip2 file, and the last 
.tar was tacked on by stupid Safari misunderstanding some mime-type 
declaration? That's what I have seen occasionally.

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Martin