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In article <sadbkINNsn9@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu  
(Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
> In article <CNH5730.92Apr12170622@calvin.tamu.edu>
> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Charles N. Herrick) writes:
> 
> > What happened to the *.app approach? You hide your files in the
> > directory which appears as *.app in your file viewer.
> > 
> > Isn't this sufficient?
> 
> 
> We are talking about where to store files for *each user*.
> Obviously, storing crud for 50 users who might share a particular app
> into the *.app is a bad idea.
> *.app is there to hold files that do not change over time and those
> shared by all users.
> ...

Ditto! I will personally flay the first developer who decides to put all  
that crap in the *.app wrapper. :-)

There are many meticulous system administrator like myself who put  
applications on a smaller hard drives or partitions that are mounted  
network wide and are often read-only to everyone except root. We don't  
like anyone writing to the hard drive(s) or partition(s) in question and  
those filesystems don't have much room to begin with.

While we're bitching ...

I am quite annoyed by application software that keep their sample files,  
demo files, and other non-directly related stuff in the *.app wrapper  
which are almost always kept in /LocalApps residing on the aforementioned  
filesystem. For consistency sake, why not keep them in the  
/LocalLibrary/Documentation/... folders? Besides the application  
executables and configuration files, help files should be the only other  
files allowed to reside in the wrapper.

The guilty developers know who they are! :-)

Back to the original complaint about stray files in home folders, I prefer  
the ~/Library/<application_name> approach. It is clean and easy to manage  
and far enough out of the way of the home folders that the (expert) users  
don't have to see it all the time.

Joe
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