On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 21:56, David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org> wrote:
> > If it's just updating a cache, then it shouldn't be too bad in terms of > performance. It wouldn't need to read Info.plists from any .app that was > already in the cache (maybe it could store the modification date in the > cache and just stat the file to find out if it had been modified more > recently, but you could probably just assume it hasn't, and do a proper > update the next time the .app is launched, when the .plist is read anyway). > > Since you typically only have 3 Applications directories, this would just > involve the equivalent of three ls *.app commands in the common case, and a > tiny bit more in cases where you've added one or two new apps recently. Heh, I didn't think of it that - it could just add and parse newly added apps, just like the old ones could be removed. This sounds perfect! -- Regards, Ivan Vučica
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