[Pythonmac-SIG] python + pygame on OSX

[Keith Nemitz]

Wow, is the 'one flavor suits all' concept still breathing? I would 
have thought that went out with Ronald Reagan and MS-DOS. I wrote 
'would be' instead of 'should be' and 'allow' instead of 'require'.

Some apps don't fit the 'place anywhere - run everywhere' model. In my 
case, the installer determines locality access and the app itself 
determines runtime access.

As a user, I don't want certain apps to go running around dropping 
files all over my hard-drive, begging me to grant them su status during 
their install and having to clean up their mess in order to completely 
trash their app. Most users don't have a clue about their 
preferences/library folder, but many of them have run out of space on 
their hard drive.

But now we're OT, and - crap MS-DOS IS still around...
Keith Nemitz


On Feb 24, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> Writing to the application is a bad idea, on Linux/Unix, OSX and some 
> flavors of Windows the application will only be writeable by 
> administrative accounts. Anyone that manages a sizeable amount of 
> desktops gets very nervous when ordinary users can modify 
> applications, even for single user desktops.
>
> Modifying the application also makes it harder to support multiple 
> users on a machine (shared preferences).
>

On Feb 24, 2004, at 10:40 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>
>
> That's too bad :)  Apple says don't do it with good reason.  You can 
> run into various locking/permissions problems (i.e. if the app was on 
> a CD-ROM, on a Server, owned by another user, etc.) if you do, and 
> they offer perfectly good alternatives that are flexible for almost 
> any purpose and do not have such issues.  You shouldn't be doing such 
> things on any platform, especially not OS X.
>
> If you would like to modify your own app bundle, I strongly suggest 
> making a copy of the app and changing that.. as is common for creating 
> a self-contained presentation from a presentation-viewer, or a 
> self-extracting archive, etc.
>
> -bob
>