Re: Regarding Nautilus scripts

[Ross Burton <r burton 180sw com>]

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 01:52, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> > So how is this more difficult than MacOS or BeOS?

> You have to  deal with 2 files instead of one. The .server file is
> completely reduntant from the user's point of view. You might think "the
> user won't mess with those", but this is untrue. From the moment an
> applet/extension/addon thingie takes off (with the trick of installing 4-5
> of them by default), users will fall in love with the functionality.
[snip yadda yadda]

Joe user will either install a pre-build package, or take a source
tarball and do the configure && make && make install.

Via either route, the exact files used and locations of files are not
known.  The user installs a package, Stuff Just Works. The user runs
"make install" in a tarball, everything is installed, Stuff Just Works.

Nobody expects the user to manually install the .server and .so file, as
that thinking means that we also expect them to compile C code manually
without using Makefiles.

Ross
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