[Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

[Jack Jansen]

On 25-apr-2007, at 7:50, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

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> On 24 Apr, 2007, at 5:45, Brian Christensen wrote:
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>> Following up on this lead we found that there is a problem with
>> StuffIt 10. My application was distributed as a zip file so the user
>> used StuffIt to unzip the file. It turns out that StuffIt was
>> unzipping and deleting the site-packages.zip inside of the  
>> application!
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> That's very lame behaviour on StufIt's part.

It's a preference. In Stuffit Expander it's called "Continue to  
expand if possible", in the full stuffit it's probably something  
similar.
It's on by default, it's what makes stuffit do the full decoding and  
unpacking of, say, a .tar.gz.
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