Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"
Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"
- From: Kevin Elliott <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:13:34 -0800
At 16:35 -0500 on 3/24/04, Kevin Ballard wrote:
On Mar 24, 2004, at 4:16 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
Uh. What's "Games"? Right now, Shovel scans:
/Applications
/Developer/Applications
~/
I've never seen "Games" on any machine.
I have a ~/Games folder, and I assume other people do that too (I'm
guessing there's probably some people with a /Games folder as well).
Oh, I forgot about /Developer/Applications as well. But why scan all of
the home folder? The only necessary folder is ~/Applications (and, in
my case, ~/Games)? Nothing else is useful.
Why are you making assumptions about where the user is storing apps?
Case in point- the VAST majority of my applications are stored in
/Volumes/Warehouse/OSXApps. I don't store them in /Applications
because I reinstall the OS to often and I don't like mixing Apple
applications and 3rd party apps. Also, be careful how your finding
the users home folder- my home folder is not on my boot volume
(again, I reinstall a lot). I don't store them in my home folder,
because my machine has multiple users who need to access the apps.
Right now on my machine the only apps you'll find are apple provided,
which kind of misses the point...
To be frank, at this point I consider it completely useless. Your
making a huge assumption about how users use there machine, and
that's lethal for an app that want to be the universal updater to the
world. Sorry.
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