Mailing Lists: Apple Mailing Lists
Image of Mac OS face in stamp
 
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"

At 16:35 -0500 on 3/24/04, Kevin Ballard wrote:
On Mar 24, 2004, at 4:16 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

Uh. What's "Games"? Right now, Shovel scans:

/Applications
/Developer/Applications
~/

I've never seen "Games" on any machine.

I have a ~/Games folder, and I assume other people do that too (I'm
guessing there's probably some people with a /Games folder as well).

Oh, I forgot about /Developer/Applications as well. But why scan all of
the home folder? The only necessary folder is ~/Applications (and, in
my case, ~/Games)? Nothing else is useful.

Why are you making assumptions about where the user is storing apps? Case in point- the VAST majority of my applications are stored in /Volumes/Warehouse/OSXApps. I don't store them in /Applications because I reinstall the OS to often and I don't like mixing Apple applications and 3rd party apps. Also, be careful how your finding the users home folder- my home folder is not on my boot volume (again, I reinstall a lot). I don't store them in my home folder, because my machine has multiple users who need to access the apps. Right now on my machine the only apps you'll find are apple provided, which kind of misses the point...

To be frank, at this point I consider it completely useless. Your making a huge assumption about how users use there machine, and that's lethal for an app that want to be the universal updater to the world. Sorry.
--
__________________________________________
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud.
After a while, you realize the pig is enjoying it.
__________________________________________
Kevin Elliott <mailto:email@hidden>
ICQ#23758827 AIM ID: teargo
iChatAV: email@hidden (video chat available)
__________________________________________
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

References: 
 >[ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Kevin Ballard <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Kevin Ballard <email@hidden>)



Visit the Apple Store online or at retail locations.
1-800-MY-APPLE

Contact Apple | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2007 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.