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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 18:29:44 +0000

On 8 Dec 2005, at 18:22, John Stiles wrote:
I don't think those things are relevant to end users.
Remember, we're developers. We are all a special case.

I can't quite believe the arrogance of this. Are we not also end users? There's a useful mechanism there and we're contemplating breaking it not for any particular technical advantage but because we've decided that it's not useful to mere mortals?

--
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

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