Re: [MacPerl] Installing on Users' Macs

[Nathaniel Irons <irons@espresso.hampshire.edu>]

On 12/3/98 at 1:05 PM, lowrey@postoffice.sells.com (Jefferson R. Lowrey)
wrote:

> Actually, under 8.5, there's now a folder called "Application
> Support" in the System Folder.  A MacPerl folder in there would be
> very 8.5 savvy -

The Application Support folder goes back further than 8.5, I believe.

> particularly if there's a good way to register with the Finder what
> kinds of MacPerl files should get put there (like maybe a type
> code).

That would more likely be through use of Internet Config and it's
file-extension mapping.  On that note, a future version of the Mac OS
will eliminate the assumption of .pm files as binary data when new
Internet settings are created, and I've asked Quinn about making the
same change in future versions of Internet Config.

> "site-perl" would be ":System Folder:Application
> Support:MacPerl:site-perl".  It should also make the road to OSX
> compatability easier.

Right now, the only application on my machine which needs to know the
location of site-perl is perl.  I'm not sure what benefit would be
realized by this change.  I'm also not clear on the impact it would have
on OS X compatibility.

  -nat



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