Supplementary files of an app belong into ~/Library/Application Support
Supplementary files of an app belong into ~/Library/Application Support
- Subject: Supplementary files of an app belong into ~/Library/Application Support
- From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:25:53 +0200
Hi,
I want to point out that according to Apple's new standards (as
described on page 163 of the current version of
SystemOverview.pdf), supplementary files for an application belong
into ~/Library/Application Support. This is a very reasonable rule.
A few days ago, I realized that practically all major Cocoa
applications that are already available (from Omni, Stone, Caffeine
and RBrowser) put their supplementary files into a folder directly
in ~/Library.
This a *very bad* thing, because as soon as you have a lot of apps,
~/Library will become a hardly manageable mess, in which other
important folders will get lost among all these supplementary app
folders, whereas putting these supplementary app folders into
~/Library/Application Support separates them from the rest and
makes things much clearer.
I thought it would be especially important that the already
existing apps stick to Apple's guidelines, since they will be
models for upcoming Cocoa apps.
Therefore, I sent an email to the above mentioned companies with
regard to this subject. While I still don't have an answer from the
other companies, Omni reacted immediately, and starting with
yesterday's release of OmniWeb rc1, will change the behavior of
all their apps accordingly. (Many thanks to Omni! Once again, you
proved to be such a great company! :-)) )
I just wanted to point this out to all developers here, so that
upcoming Cocoa apps get this right from the start.
Thanks!
Bye
Uli
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