Re: Bundle, Wrappers, whatever
Re: Bundle, Wrappers, whatever
- Subject: Re: Bundle, Wrappers, whatever
- From: Chris Thomas <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:47:32 -0800
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We try to distinguish terminologically between "bundles" and
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"packages". A bundle (in our sense) is something that has one of the
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special structures recognized by CFBundle/NSBundle. A "package" is a
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directory that is presented to the user as a single object. For
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example, bundled applications are both bundles and packages; frameworks
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are bundles but not packages; rtfd's are packages but not bundles; and
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ordinary directories are neither.
And, just to confuse you further, the term "bundle" also refers to a Mach-O
dynamically-loadable executable file: an NSBundle might contain a Mach-O
bundle. For this reason, it's probably best to explicitly use "NSBundle" or
"CFBundle" when referring to an NSBundle-style "bundle," unless the
surrounding context makes it clear which you're referring to.
Chris
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