[squeak-dev] [Squeak 4.0] Mac metadata, zip, and the shell?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Mar 8 09:30:25 UTC 2010


On 08.03.2010, at 02:19, Ronald Spengler wrote:
> 
> I noted when unzipping the Mac distribution of Squeak that there's a
> directory __MACOSX which it would seem contains some metadata. I don't
> know how to create this without using the Finder. I'd rather use the
> shell, but the 'zip' command doesn't seem to create this metadata.
> 
> Does anyone know a way that I can avoid doing this manually?

If you can find a way avoiding these I'd say fine :)

AFAIK nothing in a Squeak release depends on this filesystem meta data, so leaving it out is the way to go.

But it's good you copied John, he will know for sure.

- Bert -





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