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 Lines: 14 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. -- Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam guido@piring.cwi.nl or mcvax!piring!guido or guido%piring.cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net