Re: TurnKey Installer Components

From: David Avendasora (webobject..vendasora.com)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2010 - 15:12:09 UTC

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    How do 99% of all Mac users run? I'm guessing as admin users (there's a little evil in all of us).

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    On Oct 7, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Mike Schrag <mschra..obox.com> wrote:

    > That's because you either made it world-writable or you run as an admin user, either of which is kind of evil.
    >
    > ms
    >
    > On Oct 7, 2010, at 10:53 AM, John Huss wrote:
    >
    >> I have put eclipse into /Applications forever and I've never had a single problem with permissions. I think that is a non-issue.
    >>
    >> John
    >>
    >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Kieran Kelleher <kelleher..mail.com> wrote:
    >> David,
    >>
    >> I disagree with you and Timo, and I agree with Mike and others. ;-)
    >>
    >> In summary 2 good reasons for installing in ~/Applications, considering that novice/intermediate users are the ones we are trying to make life easy for.....
    >>
    >> 1) Writeable Eclipse dir ... keep writeable in user dir. Prevent permission issues that 'stump' newbies into giving up too early.
    >>
    >> 2) Painless migrations to new machines
    >>
    >> -Kieran
    >>
    >> On Oct 7, 2010, at 7:54 AM, David Avendasora wrote:
    >>
    >> > I'm pretty against ~/Applications. Nothing installs there by default. Why would we make an installer that's targeted at getting new users up and running install in a place other than the normal /Applications? Sure ~/Applications is _better_ but it's not _normal_.
    >> >
    >> > If they're advanced enough to want it in ~/Applications then they can move it.
    >> >
    >> > Dave
    >> >
    >> > On Oct 6, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
    >> >
    >> >> I had no idea what I was getting myself into....heh.
    >> >>
    >> >> This is for newbies...generally speaking, so we'll do ~/Applications...maybe offer a choice...dunno yet.
    >> >>
    >> >> -j
    >> >>
    >> >> On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >> >>
    >> >>>> I was the same until recently when I switched to a new machine and forgot to copy over eclipse for the umteen'th time. So I moved it to my home directory instead.
    >> >>>>
    >> >>>> If eclipse kept it's plugins and other global config in my home directory I would have no reason to keep it there also.
    >> >>> welcome to one of the longest-standing debates in eclipse history
    >> >>>
    >> >>> ms
    >> >>
    >> >
    >>
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