Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another?
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: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:54:47 -0500
On Dec 8, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 8 Dec 2005, at 18:34, John Stiles wrote:
All I was trying to say is that NSUserDefaults' strongest point
isn't that it is compatible with the "defaults" command line tool.
To most users, that's totally irrelevant, since they don't even
know how to use the command line, and they certainly don't know
the secret preference settings of your app. (Do you even get
"defaults" unless you install the developer package? I don't
remember.)
I know - that's what I'm objecting to :)
More to the point, if you use NSUserDefaults, the storage format and
location are completely abstracted, so the end user can manage the
defaults using *any* tool that uses NSUserDefaults. One of those
tools is a command-line tool called "defaults", but that's more or
less incidental.
sherm--
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