Re: where to put things?

[Jeff Lowrey]

At 12:32 AM -0800 1/15/03, Rich Morin wrote:

I'm building a multi-program application, using C, ObjC, Perl, YAML, etc.
I think I know where some of my files should go, but others mystify me.
These seem pretty clear:

  application		   /Applications/Utilities/Foo.app
  contextual menu plugin   /Library/Contextual Menu Plugins/Foo.plugin
  wrapper script	   /usr/local/bin/foo

I'm not quite sure what your wrapper script is, and why it couldn't go in /Applications/Utilities/Foo.app/ along with Foo and your plists and etc, but I'll take your word for it.

These do not:

  configuration files	   /usr/local/etc (if there was one :-)
  daemon scripts	   /usr/local/lib (if there was one :-)
  helper scripts	   /usr/local/lib (if there was one :-)

One thought I have had is to put the latter files into Foo.app, but I
don't know if there is a Well-Known Place to use for this.  Help?

I don't know if it's a Well-Known Place, but Adobe and Macromedia seem to use /Library/Application Support/<myApp>/ for that kind of thing.

-Jeff Lowrey