Re: Mulberry and Windows 7 Pro 64

On Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> I think this arises from two warring philosophies: Mulberry wants to keep 
> everything in one directory (eg. on a Flash drive or a portable USB hard 
> drive), including its temporary files, so that you can pick up the entire 
> installation and run it from any machine. (Except that it keeps 
> configuration in the registry by default, making that impossible. But you 
> can save even that to a text file to be loaded from the single directory.) 
> The Windows philosophy is to put the application in a write-protected area 
> (under Program Files) and keep all configuration and temporary files in the 
> user's writable profile (eg. \Users\username). (Linux encourages the same 
> style.) This is more robust against malware because the malware can't alter 
> your programs, only your data. Mozilla apps can be installed either way, 
> with the former style called a "portable installation".
> 
> 

That's interesting.  The Mac version you can install anywhere--although most people are going to put it in /Applications.

Its support files get written to /Users/username/Documents/Mulberry.  That's a little unusual inasmuch as the usual location would be ~/Library/Application Support.  I assume that's because Mulberry predates OS X.

(Interestingly, Apple now seems to have hidden ~/Library from the user on more recent versions of OS X.  I take that what's in that directory is thought of as "behind the scenes" and of no concern to the user in the current Apple philosophy.  Maybe the way the mobile OS works has had an influence on the thinking here?)

Regards,

Michaek