Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!guido
From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: AppleShare-able Compilers
Message-ID: <382@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 24 Jun 88 11:12:33 GMT
References: <4812@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: The Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Amoebae
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In article <4812@husc6.harvard.edu> singer@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
>and furthermore, the compilers save configuration settings in themselves,
>subject to a user command.

Yes.  I hate this.  Apple has long declared that applications should not
modify themselves to set options etc., but use a "profile" file instead,
and exactly for this reason (shared volumes).  It's probably too late
with 3.0 out and everything, but I think that options should be stored
in the project files, especially options that change the syntax of the
language or affect properties of the generated code.

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Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
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