Executable Packers

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The simplest answer would be... Because ALL of my projects are developped in as well Windows as MacOS, and Windows doesn't support DMG at all, neither compressed nor uncompressed. Point is that when I'm at work I've a lot of time there my boss can't fill in, so I use that time to work on my BlitzMax projects, but since my boss isn't considering to switch to Mac, I'm bound to such limmitations, only at home I can get rid of the chains Windows binds me to, since only there I've a Mac. Another thing is that I want my users to have smaller exes. Using a DMG file will nearly always result into dragging the exe to the applications folder, which kills the result of the compressed DMG. And last. It's hard to predict how big my projects become before I start on them. Using a DMG requires me to estimate such things right. And if it happens to get smaller the DMG still takes up the unrequired space. Undoubtly there's a way to truncate that, I'm sure, but for the time being that's not handy.
Cut short, for the time being DMGs are not the solution. But of course I can always take those in mind as I do acknowledge that they are handy for other purposes ;)