Re: [MacPerl] Installing on Users' Macs

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 10.50 -0500 1998.12.03, Matthew Langford wrote:
>But Big Brotherisms like invisibility of a large folder is not the Right
>Thing, at least for the product developer, unless you know that a script
>is not meant for wide distribution, but only for this Hostile Environment.
>
>For wide distribution, overprotection is presumptuous, annoying, bad
>policy, and worse.  Even Microsoft knows better.

Absolutely.

>If we are talking about an installation issues for general MacPerl
>scripts, in my opinion, invisibility is a poor option.  Again, I don't
>mind an invisible file, but making a large folder invisible is very, very
>bad.

Absolutely.  This is not for general comsumption.  Neither would be the
other option, necessarily.  These are for people who want to install
MacPerl in places where there are certain, um, difficulties in doing so.

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