Re: [MacPerl] Installing on Users' Macs

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 16:37 -0800 12/4/98, Vicki Brown wrote:
> Oh please, Please, PLEASE don't let us ever start putting MacPerl files
> into the System Folder.  My System Folder is 229 MB as it is.  It contains
> over 2000 (yes, 2000!) items.  Many of which are shared libraries and
> things that are _not_ loadable extensions but some Asanine program has
> stuck them in the Extensions folder because they couldn't think of a better
> way.

Often (and properly) the shared libraries are in the System folder because 
they're expected to be, well, shared.  [MS Office 98 puts libraries 
intended for one of the apps into that app's folder, and libraries used by 
more than one into the System folder (somewhere).]  Shared libraries are 
easy to use if they are in System or in the same folder as the application 
that wants to use them.

   --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach him to fish,
and you get rid of him for the weekend.

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