Re: Saving application data in ~/Library/Application Support/
Re: Saving application data in ~/Library/Application Support/
- Subject: Re: Saving application data in ~/Library/Application Support/
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:29:08 -0500
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Josh de Lioncourt
<email@hidden> wrote:
> There are several reasons we're not doing it this way. One is that our
> application data will be stored in a customized format that is *not* a
> .plist file, because we need to maintain cross-platform support. Yes, I
> know that technically I could write WIndows code to parse the .plist, but
> the better, simpler solution for our specific situation is customized data
> files. It doesn't seem wise to me to store non-.plist files in
> ~/Library/Preferences. Believe me, I'm very familiar with Mac. I actually
> realy dislike Windows, and if I could drop cross-platform necessities, I
> would. :)
Your reasoning doesn't quite seem ... reasonable to me. :-)
Specifically, when would your Windows version be reading the Mac
version's preferences and vice-versa? Presumably your user has *data*
they wish to share between their Mac and their Windows computers,
which is one thing, but the *preferences* are specific to the app /
machine (and even more specifically, the user), right? Why not use
each platform's native preferences/settings interfaces to store this
information where it belongs?
--
I.S.
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