Bill Janssen wrote:
> Read, my installers put links in /usr/bin/, too. It's really the only
> way to go, until Apple provides something like the Windows registry
> complete with a programmatic API for it.
AACCK! NOOOOOO!
You sure don't need the nightmare of the registry for Apple to make this
kind of thing easier.
1) They could just have a standard place for user-installed command line
apps to go (/usr/local/bin is a fine choice), and PUT IT IN THE DEFAULT
PATH!
2) you mentioned a programmatic API: In fact, I think there is a plist
somewhere that sets the default environment variables for all apps, you
could add a PATH entry (or add to it) programmaticly easily enough.
3) PATH is only relevant to command line apps: if you've never gone back
from using a GUI -- you'll never need to care about this.
4) I've used a GUI for many years: Macintosh, various flavors of
Windows, KDE, etc -- I still keep going back to the command line for
some things.
-Chris
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