Hi Thargoid,
I am posting this in a random thread of yours, because it concerns all your OXPs.
Please forgive me for repeating all over again a very old speech of mine: I just downloaded your OXPs and notice the packaging problem. You have put your readMe's
in your OXPs. This is a bad idea, because it means virtually nobody who is using a Mac will ever even know that there
is a readMe. (Not that many people actually read readMe's, but you never know...)
Why is this so? Because of the way the Mac OS handles OXPs. On your PC (or Linux-puter) OXPs look like ordinary folders. So you can open them, see the different sub-folders within (like Config, AIs, Models, Textures, etc.), and even readMe's and whatever documentation an OXPer chooses to give out with his OXP. Everything seems fine.
Not so in OS X. Here an OXP is a
package. It looks like a single file (like for instance the Oolite-application itself), and it has a special icon. You have to be an advanced user to even get to the idea that you could open it. (If you simply double-click, it will
not open, instead Oolite will launch.) So you have to use a trick to even look inside. Which means that only very few end-users
will ever look inside. So they will get old and die without even knowing that you had written a readMe with some explanations about your OXP.
So what to do?
Never ever include anything you want to be noticed by your users in the OXP-folder itself. Instead create a mother-folder around your OXP-folder. Put your documentation in that mother folder, along with your OXP-folder. Now you are on the safe side. (So yes, there is a reason why you have downloaded many OXPs which are packed exactly in this way.)
Thank you very much.
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