Lion problem report and fix

[Pete Haworth]

I don't think the rules have changed at all if I understand things
correctly.  Apple have just made it more difficult for people to abide by
their own guidelines.  They say Application Support is the place to put
certain types of user files (and I assume that applies to both the user and
system locations of that folder), then stop you from following their
guidelines without jumping through hoops.

>From the description, I'd say that SQL database files would be a good
candidate to put in Application Support?  If so and I have a database I want
to be available to all users of a specific Mac, it seems like the system
Application Support folder would be the place to put it.  As an admin user,
I would expect to be able to do that with the usual prompt for Admin user
password and not have to issue Unix commands from Terminal.

It's not the end of the world, just another installation gotcha that has to
be dealt with.

Pete



On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:
>
>
> The rules haven't changed all that much; it's more like a prudent closure
> of a security exposure.
>
> Allowing all processes to write to the system's Library is dangerous.
> Problem solved in Lion.
>
> So what do we do?
>
> Nothing much different from how it's been for the last decade:
>
> Applications: most of an app's files go here, including the executable
>              and other components like stack files and externals, all
>              the essentials you app needs to run
>
> Preferences:  user-specific settings for the app
>
> Application Support: Apple says, "These are the files that your
>              application creates and manages on behalf of the user
>              and can include files that contain user data."
>
>