Suspicious Package update

Suspicious Package is a QuickLook plugin that lets you examine pkg (and now mpkg) files from Finder with QuickLook. No more having to drop into Terminal.app and use lsbom.

Here are the bullet points from the release notes:

• Added support for metapackages.


• Fixed problem where the actual installation location was not shown for some packages.


• Added indication when a package requires authentication with an administrator password.


• Added indication when a package requires a system restart (or shut down, or log out) after installation.


• Added indication when a package has install scripts, and an option to view the actual scripts (see details).


• Added support for installer receipts and .bom files

Download the new release from http://www.mothersruin.com.

QuickLook plugin for .PKG

There's a handy QuickLook plugin to show what files a pkg will install at http://MothersRuin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/

Suspicious Package is a plugin for the Quick Look feature of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). It allows you to preview the contents of a standard Apple installer package without launching the Installer. Just select the icon in the Finder and select Quick Look

QuickLook + TextMate

QuickLook plugins for TextMate - there's one that lets you view source files in your project with TextMate, and another that lets QuickLook use TextMate to render syntax-colorized views of source code.

Both are at Ciarán Walsh's blog.

ZIP file Quick Look plugin

XX posted a free Quick Look plugin that lets you examine ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary on his MacItBetter blog.