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Re: My app breaks when moved while running
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Re: My app breaks when moved while running


  • Subject: Re: My app breaks when moved while running
  • From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:37:31 -0500
  • Organization: Rogue Research

On 2/7/08 3:31 PM, Phil said:

>It seems like it would be a significant amount
>of effort, both in the Apple frameworks and for app developers, to
>keep a non-trivial application functioning properly to being moved/
>renamed while running vs. what percentage of users would ever attempt
>to do this even once.

You're thinking like a programmer.  What percentage of users would even
consider that moving a running app could be a problem?  Why should it
be?  Many users don't even understand the whole idea of the file system
hierarchy, let alone such subtleties.

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada

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