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: Urs Heckmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:52:42 +0200
Well,
one could also use TinkerTool and make invisible files visible, only to
throw away etc/ and stuff...
I mean, a whole bunch of computer users naively uses RegEdit (yep, with
a "g") during the daily attempt to get their system work 8-))
And man, I'm very happy I don't need ResEdit anymore...
Having plain files as resources is a big pro. I've started to put a
whole lot of different things in there, like "init.aupreset" and stuff.
Whatever damage they do in a single .component, a simple re-install
will recover...
Cheers,
;) Urs
Am Freitag, 12.09.03, um 19:19 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Glenn
Olander:
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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