Kyle, I've reread your post and now see your last sentence, where you mention Library/Caches. I guess that could be an acceptable location for the data I download from the internet. I still feel the data as being more "persistent" than data associated with a 'cache' though.
I'm considering adding a build phase that runs a little program to acquire data from the internet and copy it to the Application bundle. That would avoid an annoying delay in starting up the program for the first time after installation. Then if the user ever wanted to update the data, he/she could explicitly do it. Thanks for all the replies to my original post. I hope I can get up to speed before long so I don't post very basic questions. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Kyle Sluder <kyle.slu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Steven Degutis > <steven.degu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Apple's docs explicitly say that this folder should only contain files that >> are *not* necessary for the app to function normally. Files that are >> necessary should be inside your app bundle, usually. > > As has been covered before, I believe you are misinterpreting the > documentation. > > The documentation is advising you against putting frameworks, static > libraries, resources, or other pieces of what could rightly be > considered your app bundle inside your App Support directory. Plugins, > licenses, and other non-integral yet critical portions of your app > belong in App Support. > > Library/Caches is for stuff that could be blown away at any moment. > > --Kyle Sluder > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
