Comment by 1718627440
3 months ago
Interesting, but now this information is no longer attached to the original file and you need to manually include it, when distributing the file. Also it is now kind of obvious, that there is not only the file itself in the ZIP file.
It’s not obvious if you are only using macOS, because macOS hides all of these extra files it creates. It’s only obvious if you use Windows or Linux. But of courses the chances of a typical macOS user also using Windows or Linux is very low.
Do packager programs on macOS lie about the packet contents? Otherwise the user will see it when opening the packet. The user needs to be aware of metadata when leaking stuff, e.g. EXIF data for images, non-deleted text in Word, overdrawn stuff in SVG, etc. anyways.
You mean Finder. Well Finder hides all files beginning with a dot by default. And in a Terminal the `ls` command also hides all such files by default, which is a behavior mandated by POSIX.
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By default, the archive just extracts when you try to open it. I don't think MacOS has an archive explorer by default.