[TxMt] tm update needed

[Gerd Knops]

On Thu, Oct 6, at 2:01 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 06/10/2005, at 20.01, Eric Knapp wrote:
>
>
>> [...] Are the TM guys thinking of an installer that creates the  
>> symlink for you?
>>
>
> Yes, just need to figure out what's best.
>
> E.g. probably only makes sense to ask if the application is  
> installed (rather than running from a disk image), and maybe not  
> ask the first time a user runs the application (since he wouldn't  
> know if he'd want it yet). And also provide a way for the user to  
> maybe create it later and or inspect what was what done… and  
> personally I favor ~/bin but that doesn't exist by default, and  
> thus would also need to be added to the PATH… a lot to think about :)

Please do not hardcode it to ~/bin. If you want to introduce a unixy  
kind of hierarchy in the users directory, it should rather be ~/ 
something/bin, because when you think about it you also want ~/ 
something/man, ~/something/lib, ~/something/include, ~/something/etc  
and so on, and I would rather not have all those directories  
cluttering up my home directory. 'something' happens to be 'Unix' on  
my system, and I bet other folks system found any number of different  
names for that.

Also /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/bin and others might all be  
candidates, but I know of a number of companies that have conflicting  
policies about how those directories should be used.

In short an installer may suggest a location, but the user should be  
able to edit it. And it should probably be noted in the preferences  
system, so when the next TM installer comes along it can find it.

Gerd