Re: Possible to package an AU with an app?
Re: Possible to package an AU with an app?
- Subject: Re: Possible to package an AU with an app?
- From: Glenn Olander <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:19:35 -0700
I guess it's a matter of degree. On OS9, you have to run resedit
to muck with resources, so someone who is doing that clearly
understands they may be breaking things.
On OSX, someone simply innocently clicking on things in the finder
can open a bundle and cause serious damage. But, unlike the resedit
case in OS9 there was no overt act that I would call "hacking".
Bundles just seem disappointing vulnerable to corruption.
It's too late now, but IMHO it would have been much better to use
archive libraries rather than directories for bundles.
- Glenn
Marc Poirier wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Glenn Olander wrote:
Regarding error checking, It's always made me nervous about how easy it
is for anyone with the Finder and a text editor to muck with a
bundle. How do you know a bundle is valid/intact?
Heh heh, I love the hackability of OS X! :) But I've thought about it
from that view point, too. Like recently I was working on an app that
relied on a certain other bundle having a certain bundle identifier, and I
was thinking, "well, but what if the user tampers with that and changes
it, should I have some sort of fallback?" But then I thought, whatever,
if someone does stuff like that, they have to expect that they might break
something. And if they are hacking like that, they probably know enough
to know how to revert whatever changes they made. Anyway, this doesn't
really answer your question I guess, but I was just thinking about it
recently too, and just sharing my thoughts...
Marc
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