[Adium-devl] Ticket #4501

[Colin Barrett]

On Dec 9, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Dec 09, 2007, at 11:18:24, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>> Users go into plists all the time...
>
> Sure, if they're user-visible. Not so often when they're wrapped in  
> bundles. And when they are wrapped in bundles, the user generally  
> shouldn't be digging around in there in the first place.
>
> I can imagine a user having to go in there on our instruction,  
> though, and extended attributes would make that much harder. So if  
> nobody has any case for xattrs, I say we go with a plist.

Why have a bundle when one is not needed?

Extended attributes are easy to set. Search ADC. They are inspectable  
from Terminal by using the xattr(1) command.

What good reason do we need a bundle for? Just seems like a bunch of  
code that is unneeded to me.



It's also not very clear what use cases we are aiming to support,  
here. Maybe we should agree on those first, and THEN figure out how we  
want to implement it?

-Colin