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  • Subject: Re: How packages are recognized...
  • From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:54:49 +0100

On 7 Aug 2007, at 15:47, Andrew Merenbach wrote:

I know that the OP asked, so Alastair was simply answering him, but, from a philosophical point of view...

Does it actually make any sense to set the bundle bit of a bundle when you could simply use a UTI declaration? Bundles that aren't of the default type (.kext, .plugin, .bundle, .app) don't tend to exist on their own, do they? rather, they have an application to which they're attached. Thus might the UTI declaration be a little more effective?

Perhaps the biggest advantage of UTIs over this kind of thing is that they aren't specific to HFS+. i.e. If you copy a bundle that has its bundle bit set to a disk that isn't using HFS+, it's possible that you'll end up with a folder rather than a bundle (I haven't checked, but it seems likely). The same wouldn't happen with UTI declarations.


Kind regards,

Alastair.

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