Re: TurnKey Installer Components

On a complete tangent:

Mike's wo setup script is AWESOME.

<http://gist.github.com/610081>

Anyone want a double-clickable wrapper built around this?

On 2010-10-07, at 9:54 AM, Paul D Yu wrote:

> I have not shared MY development machine(s) with other people for as long as I can remember, so I've installed Eclipse in /Applications.  Not that I'm advocating for this...
> 
> Do you guys actually share your machines with other developers?
> 
> Paul
> On Oct 7, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Timo Hoepfner wrote:
> 
>> I agree with Dave on this one.
>> 
>> Timo
>> 
>> Am 07.10.2010 um 13:54 schrieb David Avendasora:
>> 
>>> I'm pretty against ~/Applications. Nothing installs there by default. Why would we make an installer that's targeted at getting new users up and running install in a place other than the normal /Applications? Sure ~/Applications is _better_ but it's not _normal_.
>>> 
>>> If they're advanced enough to want it in ~/Applications then they can move it.
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I had no idea what I was getting myself into....heh.
>>>> 
>>>> This is for newbies...generally speaking, so we'll do ~/Applications...maybe offer a choice...dunno yet.
>>>> 
>>>> -j
>>>> 
>>>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> I was the same until recently when I switched to a new machine and forgot to copy over eclipse for the umteen'th time. So I moved it to my home directory instead.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If eclipse kept it's plugins and other global config in my home directory I would have no reason to keep it there also.
>>>>> welcome to one of the longest-standing debates in eclipse history
>>>>> 
>>>>> ms
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

;david

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