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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 18:54:56 +0000

On 8 Dec 2005, at 18:49, John Stiles wrote:
Jeez! When did I say that I wanted to put things "beyond the reach of 'defaults'"?!
I'm saying that in the 99% case, it's irrelevant. I didn't say "nobody should ever use defaults" or "we should get rid of defaults" or anything of the sort. There's a 1% case where defaults is super useful... I agree wholeheartedly. If you use defaults and think it's the best thing since sliced bread, that's cool. Nobody is planning on taking that away from you. Certainly it's outside of my reach ;)
There are a lot of great reasons to use NSUserDefaults. I posted them earlier. IMHO, some of these are cooler reasons than the defaults command line tool. That's ALL I'm trying to say.

OK, I'm sorry :)

I guess I just have a low tolerance to (perceived!) developer arrogance just now.

--
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

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 >What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: Andrei Tchijov <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: John Stiles <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: John Stiles <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: Andy Armstrong <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: John Stiles <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: Andy Armstrong <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: John Stiles <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: Andy Armstrong <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another? (From: John Stiles <email@hidden>)

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