On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:40 PM, John Joyce
wrote:
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> On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:00 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Erik Buck
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Where did the fetish for installing every single application on the local
>>> hard disk come from ? Isn't
On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:00 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Erik Buck
wrote:
Where did the fetish for installing every single application on the
local hard disk come from ? Isn't it insane to have 35 installed
copies of OmniGraffle using up
I, too, remember -- and miss -- the days of all applications living on
a central server. Heck, at NeXT, we would run applications from /
Network/Applications/ from anywhere in the world. It was a tad slow
at first, but was just-like-local once the app was warmed up and the
network was sta
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
> Note that there's no need to add the qualifier "most complicated"
> here. *All* applications load resources lazily, simply because OS X
> uses memory-mapped executables.
I thought I remembered reading this, but I couldn't remember and was
t
On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:54, I. Savant wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Kyle Sluder
wrote:
How so? Resource loading? I guess it was less of an issue back in
the NeXT days. But I've got ten machines in my lab, and an Xserve
serving out /Network/Library... why can't I use /Network/App
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, I. Savant wrote:
> I was rushing off to a meeting, but I wanted to expand on this a
> bit. Most complicated applications won't be loading all their
> resources when they're launched (if they're worth a damn, that is), so
> consider what would happen if, as happene
On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:48 AM, I. Savant wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Erik Buck
wrote:
Where did the fetish for installing every single application on the
local hard disk come from ? Isn't it insane to have 35 installed
copies of OmniGraffle using up disk space just because
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> How so? Resource loading? I guess it was less of an issue back in
> the NeXT days. But I've got ten machines in my lab, and an Xserve
> serving out /Network/Library... why can't I use /Network/Applications
> and have it Just Work(TM)?
We
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:48 AM, I. Savant wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Erik Buck wrote:
>
>> Where did the fetish for installing every single application on the local
>> hard disk come from ? Isn't it insane to have 35 installed copies of
>> OmniGraffle using up disk space just
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:48 AM, I. Savant wrote:
> ... because network interruptions (especially intermittent ones) can
> wreak havoc on your running apps. :-) That's my main reason.
How so? Resource loading? I guess it was less of an issue back in
the NeXT days. But I've got ten machines i
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Erik Buck wrote:
> Where did the fetish for installing every single application on the local
> hard disk come from ? Isn't it insane to have 35 installed copies of
> OmniGraffle using up disk space just because you have 35 licenses ? Why is
> MS Word on ever
There is a interesting but long rant about software installers at
http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2009/02/on_installers.html. Most of the rant is
about problems with "pushing" applications to remote client computers.
I'll try to keep this Cocoa related: All of the applications I develop are
C
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