Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

* Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing@xxxxxxxxx> [2007-05-17 20:55]:
> # from Dominique Quatravaux
> # on Thursday 17 May 2007 09:47 am:
> >"Application::" is nearly pristine right now and that's why I
> >proposed it in the first place, but I understand that it's a
> >bit of a mouthful (or typeful?).
> 
> This desire to shorten is of course where /bin/ came from in
> the first place.  Apple joined the fold several years ago

No, they didn’t. They only put the Unix utilities there because
it’s Unix convention. Application binaries live in the app’s
bundle, which is a directory that masquerades as a single file in
the Finder. If Apple’s approach is comparable to anything in
Unix, it’s /opt/ not /usr/*/.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>