Re: [Syllable-developer] Syllable installation system white paper

[Turki Al-M. <tur...@gm...>]

Thank you all for sharing your ideas.

>Perhaps, to ease users differentiating between any old .zip and an
"installable" application >.zip, all that would be needed is a
different extension and/or MIME type, or a special file or >zip header
value that the unzipper detects and lets the user know its an app? Eg,
if the file >.installable is present, the unzip app picks up on it,
throws up a dialog saying "This ZIP file >contains an installable
Syllable application. Extract it to /Applications/[appname] now?"
>That's about as far as it need go.

This sounds like a clever idea, but I don't think it's the job of the
original unzip app. Maybe a special unzip app?