Re: /Applications (Was Re: XCode 4 Questions)

Ashley Aitken <[email protected]>
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I don't mind having to manually move them (although an option would be nice).

I just hope that the App Store will still detect them for updates when they are moved to another volume and directory.

I also wonder how all the "extras" that used to come with manual install are going to be delivered.

Personally, I like to have a folder for each app with extra stuff, license info, documentation etc.

Cheers,
Ashley.

PS I wish the whole domains thing with ~/Applications /Application /Network/Applications (and similar Libraries) would work a whole lot better with Apple and third-party applications.  


On 14/03/2011, at 3:16 AM, LuKreme wrote:

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> On Mar 12, 2011, at 14:46, Lawrence Sica <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Like XCode 3, you can install it in its own directory.  But it installs a new unix toolchain and you can only have one of those installed IIRC from the release notes
>> 
>> They moved it to /Applications.  The toolchain is the latest but includes gcc and llvm now.
> 
> Is anyone else concerned with the new over-reliance on /Applications? I was rather annoyed to find that the App Store would not let you specify ~/Applications as its download target, and now some of the developer things like XCode and unnamed others are also being dropped in /Applications where, to my mind, they have no business being.
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> I'm getting tired of manually having to manage every App Store download. 
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