On Jul 21, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Shao Sean wrote: >> On the topic of "where do we put stuff (needed support files) in OS X", I >> remember Ken Ray had a great article on this… we decided on >> /Library/Application Support/, it has been working great until yesterday :-) > > Best to just use the user's application support folder.. If I remember > correctly, Apple will deny your Mac App from the store if you try to write to > the system application support folder.. > >> We are now changing on OS X so that support files will be downloaded and >> housed inside the Mac application package in the Applications directory.) > > Always a bad idea, and this will cause your app to get denied from the app > store for sure.. > > While it is true that the majority of users are running as an admin account > on their own single-user machine and you can get around the limitations > imposed by Apple by running sudo commands, think about a > corporate/educational/shared environment where your attempt to run sudo will > fail, the elevated privs through AppleScript will fail (and even Rev's new > elevated privs feature will fail).. By coding according to the rules laid out > you can save yourself headaches in the future..
Hmmm…. I stand corrected. Now, we are getting an error message when trying to execute the sudo command. "sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified" So, we are going to take Shao's sagely advice and try ~/Library/Application support. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
