Hi, 2011/12/14 Michael Barton <michael.bar...@asu.edu>:
> All directories that begin with a "." are by default hidden from Mac users. > Since permissions and settings can be accessed in other ways, this is not a > big problem. it's same for GNU/Linux, bear in mind that Mac OS has the roots in Unix :-) > But if we are putting addons into the same hidden directory, it is more > troublesome. Why? Most of the application store it's settings / user data in hidden directories (GNU/Linux). > William has previously put this into the /Library folder as a visible folder. > This is a much more sensible place for the Mac. So we need to treat Mac's > differently from Linux, like we do Windows. On Windows we have different reason, directories starting with '.' are not used on this system. I would incline to install addons in the same directory as the settings (rc, wx, ...) - speaking about GRASS 7. Martin -- Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
