[Pythonmac-SIG] Doing it differently: Module management / installation

[Jack Jansen]

On woensdag, oktober 23, 2002, at 08:37 , Mark Day wrote:
>> Agreed. however, that still begs the question as to where 
>> administrator
>> installed non-apple applications should go. Your first comment implied
>> that they shouldn't go in /Applications. On the unix side, this stuff
>> should go in /usr/local/*
>
> Quoting from the Mac OS X System Overview:
> <http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/SystemOverview/FileSystem/
> index.html>
>
> Administrators of a computer can install resources into the 
> local domain if they want those resources to be shared by all 
> users of the system. Apple ships its applications in the 
> /Applications and /Applications/Utilities directories. Third 
> party applications and utilities should also be placed in these 
> directories.

This has always struck my as funny. Why is Applications treated 
differently than Library and all the others? The only reason I 
can think of is that this is the only one you often look at in 
the finder (and then it would be confusing if you wouldn't see 
all of your apps), but still I would have liked it if the 
architecture was more orthogonal...
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