Packages

[Mark Smith]

It's been a bit of a journey, hasn't it :) Anyway, I've added the  
suggestion for an 'isPackage()' function to 5549.

Best,

Mark

On 9 Dec 2007, at 15:40, Klaus Major wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
>> It's definitely a pain for Rev programmers until a general and  
>> reliable isPackage() function or somesuch is available.
>> I don't think any of the things discussed so far will give a  
>> definitive answer as to the packageness of a folder.
>> Checking .suffixes will work, but the list of suffixes probably  
>> can't be exhaustive, the absence of a .DS_Store is not reliable (a  
>> package that has been a regular folder may well have one, a  
>> regular folder may not have one), and the presence of /Contents/ 
>> PkgInfo or /Contents/Info.plist is also not guaranteed ( though  
>> the only packages I've seen so far without a pkgInfo or info.plist  
>> are .rtfd and .band ).
>> Definitely a pain.
>> Perhaps this should be an enhancement request in the qa centre?
>
> Already in there: 5549
> Reported by me who started this thread a long time ago ;-)
>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mark
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> http://www.major-k.de
>
>
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