[by the way, I'd love to hear feedback from Mac users about how well g.extension(.sh) and the wxGUI extension manager performs in the latest 6.x.svn]
Michael wrote: > The way that William had it set is > that the default locations for addons were defined as > /Library/GRASS/6.4 or /Library/GRASS/6.5 etc. The system > and/or user /Library folder is the normal place for > preferences, plugins, and other such files on a Mac. While > the Mac is Unix at heart, people don't interact with its OS > and file system in the same way Linux users do. If there are > things we want to hide from normal users, then using a > hidden directory is OK. But for addons, it is better to put > them in a place where users expect to find them. FWIW, it > would be better if preferences were in /Library too because > that's where they are for other software. fwiw, wrt the per-user ~/Library dir in Lion getting hidden, see: http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion/ afaik the system-wide /Library is still world visible. Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
