-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2009-01-02, at 14:13, Benjamin Reed wrote: >> Also, Apple's built-in installer package management is only an >> installer, not a package manager. > > I'm not talking about Apple's *installer*, I'm talking about Apple's > bundles and frameworks. Bundles and frameworks don't overwrite anything, > because they're self-contained. You don't need an installer, you don't > need an uninstaller, and LaunchServices and the like basically figure > out where things are by inspection of the plist files.
Right, I was making 2 separate points. :) Porting existing unix software to bundles and frameworks doesn't work well, because they expect to spew config files and .po files and all kinds of other stuff all over the filesystem, and aren't good at locating their resources through relative paths. It's possible, but it's a hell of a lot more work. - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/ Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJXt1nUu+jZtP2Zf4RAhlVAKCSyHaXpU6RJyQcOvSWRaG6vCV6lwCfTlcz r/BI0E4PbllaE2eTTVl0m60= =167h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
