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Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another?
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Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another?


  • Subject: Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another?
  • From: Andy Armstrong <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:22:24 +0000

On 8 Dec 2005, at 18:16, John Stiles wrote:
I agree that prefs don't belong in Application Support, but the "defaults" command line tool? Huh...? How is that relevant to our end users?
There are certainly compelling reasons to use NSUserDefaults, and I'd even consider that "compatibility with Property List Editor.app" is one such reason. But I don't think it's common practice to use the "defaults" tool, unless you're doing hacks from Mac OS X Hints or something :)

So you're advocating breaking system functionality just because you think that people don't use it. I use defaults and I'm a user.

--
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

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