[TxMt] Re: Installing a Bundle

[Michael Sheets]

On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Jacob Rus wrote:

> DK Smith wrote:
>> I'm curious why these instructions <http://macromates.com/ 
>> textmate/ manual/bundles#getting_more_bundles> direct the User to  
>> create a local svn repo in the Apple System's (/) Library area as  
>> opposed to the User's (~) Library area. Is there a reason that it  
>> must be installed at the System level instead of the User's  
>> "Application Support" hierarchy?
>
> If you install at the user level, modifications to bundles will  
> affect the files themselves.  If you are picking up changes from  
> SVN, but not contributing your changes back, then this will cause  
> merge conflicts. If you instead put the bundles in /Library,  
> personal changes  will be saved as diffs, instead, and the svn  
> bundles can continue to be updated, hopefully without conflicts.

Best place actually is the ~/Library/Application Support/Pristine  
Copy/Bundles directory. Has the advantages of the /Lib (Textmate  
won't touch it) but it's user-level. Think the only reason the manual  
says that is because it was written before Pristine Copy existed.