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

> On 08.03.2010, at 02:19, Ronald Spengler wrote:
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>> 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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> Ron,
> See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7965382  for the requested information and options to avoid it.
>
> regards,
> Dave
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Ronald Spengler <[hidden email]> wrote:
> If you're right, hooray! Because it's totally painless to use the
> 'zip' command to roll a zip file from the shell, which saves me a
> maddening manual step. I'm going to move this way unless I hear from
> John that it's an issue; AFAIK, __MACOSX is used to store useless crap
> that will be automatically regenerated like image thumbnails, etc.,
> but I do see it when I unpack the Mac archive from 3.10, so I want to
> be sure.
>
> On Monday, March 8, 2010, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> 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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> --
> Ron
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> - Proverbs 18:22
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>

> Thanks Dave; I am using the zip command actually. I'm mostly curious
> to find out if any of the metadata in __MACOSX is actually necessary;
> it looks like the application directory has everything it actually
> needs right in there. Main reason is, I want to be able to script with
> the zip command, but it doesn't create the hidden directory.
>
> What would be really helpful is if someone could install the mac vm
> from the 4.0 alpha rc 1 directory on the FTP server onto a mac which
> has not had squeak installed on it before. Then we'd know for sure
> that the __MACOSX directory isn't necessary.
>