vw 7.5 on mac

>This is something Apple did in the 10.4.9 operating system upgrade,
>just before the 7.5 release. They put in warnings that report a
>number of valid disk images as corrupt, including ours. This appears
>to be overzealousness on Apple's part, and to date we haven't found
>any way of creating a disk image mountable on multiple platforms
>that they won't complain about. We have been using something called
>CDEverywhere, but mkisofs has exactly the same problem.
>
>There is supposed to be large and prominent text in the download
>page warning you about this. If there isn't, it's Jim's Robertson's
>fault :-) Or perhaps it isn't prominent enough.
>
>We are examining what we might be able to do about this for future
>releases e.g. make you download something completely different for
>MacOS X. Or possibly for MacOS 9, if accomodating that filesystem is
>actually what's causing the problem.
>
>At 01:48 PM 4/28/2007, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I recently installed VW 7.5 on an Intel Mac. It is great to have the
>>native VM working. From the first look I particularly like the
>>Comment icon.
>>
>>But, I did encounter a small annoying thing. When mounting the VW 7.5
>>ISO, I got a bit of a scary message :) :
>>"The disk image you are opening may be damaged and could damage your
>>system." (see attached picture)
>>
>>I tried it on two different Macs (an Intel and a PowerPC) and got the
>>same message.
>>
>>I do not know what the problem is, but this is certainly not what
>>newcomers to VisualWorks should see.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Tudor
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Content-Type: image/png;
>>         x-unix-mode=0644;
>>         x-mac-hide-extension=yes;
>>         name=Picture 1.png
>>Content-Disposition: inline;
>>         filename="Picture 1.png"
>
>--
>Alan Knight [|], Cincom Smalltalk Development
>[hidden email]
>[hidden email]
>http://www.cincom.com/smalltalk
>
>"The Static Typing Philosophy: Make it fast. Make it right. Make it
>run." - Niall Ross

> This is something Apple did in the 10.4.9 operating system upgrade,  
> just before the 7.5 release. They put in warnings that report a  
> number of valid disk images as corrupt, including ours. This  
> appears to be overzealousness on Apple's part, and to date we  
> haven't found any way of creating a disk image mountable on  
> multiple platforms that they won't complain about. We have been  
> using something called CDEverywhere, but mkisofs has exactly the  
> same problem.
>
> There is supposed to be large and prominent text in the download  
> page warning you about this. If there isn't, it's Jim's Robertson's  
> fault :-) Or perhaps it isn't prominent enough.
>
> We are examining what we might be able to do about this for future  
> releases e.g. make you download something completely different for  
> MacOS X. Or possibly for MacOS 9, if accomodating that filesystem  
> is actually what's causing the problem.
>
> At 01:48 PM 4/28/2007, Tudor Girba wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently installed VW 7.5 on an Intel Mac. It is great to have the
>> native VM working. From the first look I particularly like the
>> Comment icon.
>>
>> But, I did encounter a small annoying thing. When mounting the VW 7.5
>> ISO, I got a bit of a scary message :) :
>> "The disk image you are opening may be damaged and could damage your
>> system." (see attached picture)
>>
>> I tried it on two different Macs (an Intel and a PowerPC) and got the
>> same message.
>>
>> I do not know what the problem is, but this is certainly not what
>> newcomers to VisualWorks should see.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tudor
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Content-Type: image/png;
>>          x-unix-mode=0644;
>>          x-mac-hide-extension=yes;
>>          name=Picture 1.png
>> Content-Disposition: inline;
>>          filename="Picture 1.png"
>
> --
> Alan Knight [|], Cincom Smalltalk Development
> [hidden email]
> [hidden email]
> http://www.cincom.com/smalltalk
>
> "The Static Typing Philosophy: Make it fast. Make it right. Make it  
> run." - Niall Ross