Re: [MacPerl] Installing on Users' Macs

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 23.47 -0500 1998.12.02, Matthew Langford wrote:
>I'm uncomfortable with making the whole MacPerl folder invisible.  I
>really don't even like locking, actually.  Locking is mostly ineffective
>(only an option key away from a silent delete), and annoying.

Most people do not know this.

>Invisible
>smacks of being Big Brotherly protective--I don't want you to mess up this
>large folder of stuff I need, so I'll hide it from you.

Exactly.  That is the point.  That is what some people want.  They want to
protect their stupid users from doing somethinig stupid.  It is Big
Brotherly, it is Microsoftish, and in some cases, it may be the right thing
to do.

Certainly, I would not do that to my computers, or to the computers of
people who can follow through with a simple instruction like "don't move or
delete this folder or its contents".  But some people cannot deal with
that, and you protect them from themselves, if you are in a position to do
so.


>The System folder is a universal location for Don't-Mess-With-This things,
>I agree.  So I suppose this is the place for the core and modules (but not
>necessarily docs/PODs or other non-executable peripherals).  Java VMs, for
>example, often make their way to the System folder.  Probably the
>Extension folder, or a special Perl folder, would be appropriate.

Maybe.

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