Re: osascript - path to me
Re: osascript - path to me
- Subject: Re: osascript - path to me
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 11:11:14 +1000
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Paul skinner wrote
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Caveat: Any resources you put in the same folder as the application
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might have been deleted by the user, or the app could have been pulled
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out of it's distribution folder and put on the desktop. Bundles solve
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these problems.
I replied
This is an absolute non-starter: no one is adopting bundles or ASS to solve
simple day to day script problems.
I would add two things. If people do want this ability (to create bundles
then file that bug on Script Editor
Secondly, this is really inefficient: often one wants to share resources -
bundles prevent this.
Here is a real scenario in which I am working now. I have two scripts
li_peter and li_rep.
They both expect to find 20 sound files in a "Resources" folder beside
them. They use the same resources (about 20 MB worth).
The bundles solution would give me two 20MB scripts: 40MB in total, which
are hard to edit and maintain.
Instead, I have two 20kB scripts which are easy to deploy (I use Synk to
synchronise my scripts across 68 iMacs and 5 G4s) and one easy to handle
folder of resources at each location.
Bundles would turn this into 1.4 gigabytes of wasted bandwidth (and an hour
of transfer time) each occasion I need to modify a simple script, even by 1
or two lines.
Thankfully I could afford to buy Script Debugger and that got me around this
problem.
Tim
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