Re: Where should AppleScripts reside?
Re: Where should AppleScripts reside?
- Subject: Re: Where should AppleScripts reside?
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:52:10 +0100
On 20.01.2008, at 06:49, Wesley Smith wrote:
However, I will note that for the domain of
application I am working on (multimedia composition) most applications
are installed within a separate folder inside the /Applications folder
with a directory for extensions and scripts. Two examples that come
to mind are Max/MSP and Processing. So, in short, I think it depends
on who your apps audience is and what they expect. In multimedia,
users don't like going through the ridiculous number of folders of an
app support installation and instead prefer things to be with the app
itself along with the option of adding user search paths to the app.
I doubt it has anything to do with the domain you're in. Installing
such configurable parts in /Applications is unsuitable for multi-user
setups or server deployment (because all users on the same Mac/logged
in to the same server will get the same scripts. This used to be OK in
the System 7 days when I started out, because back then networking
wasn't done that much, particularly for applications, which were
simply to large to run over the network, but on OS X this has nothing
to do with multimedia apps.
It's a trade-off, as always: If you can, make your app self-
contained, but if it has user-serviceable parts, put them in one of
the recommended folders inside Library, so users can customize them
individually.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.zathras.de
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