Where goes stacks, included stacks and externals?

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 05:31 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:

>> You have not complained about externals going into
>> myapp.app/Contents/PlugIns, at least for the app stack.  Are you
>> thinking these should go into MacOS, too?
>>
>
> The description of the PlugIns directory is for dynamic loading 
> bundles. I
> don't think externals fit into this category. I guess if you liked 
> them to
> stacks that you dynamically loaded then they could be...

My understanding is that PlugIns is for dynamically loaded bundles that 
require a special environment to be used in.  I think that fits an 
external, but I recognize that an external is a strange beast and hard 
to cage.

Some of my externals get bundle info, but they might not need to be in 
some particular place to get that.  I have to check, but I think in all 
cases I'm referring to a loaded bundle.

Where would you suggest externals go?  For the app stack and for 
supporting stacks.  Does the DB get involved in this?

Anybody else will to share where they put externals?

Dar Scott