Re: Where's the EXPO news ??

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <C63yHv.C1w@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
>In article <1rhd9hINN24h@gap.caltech.edu> nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:
>>   On a related note, Quality was was scrambling for authors for its blankers;
>>I don't have Phantasm myself, but I heard that its rigamarole of installing
>>your blankers into its resource fork is many times worse than T2's "copy your
>>blanker here; we'll recognize it" strategy.
>
>Phantasm has a very nice installer where you select any and all blankers and
>it copies and installs them itself.  Very similar to Pointless' font setup
>if you've used it.
   
   Yeah, every time you're _trying_ to develop modules, you have to manually
unload the previous version of the module, and re-install it. Definitely
slower than Twilight's looking at its directories every time. This is the
same basic idea as the IIGS uses to detect if new Control Panels have been
added since the last boot.

   I'm surprised you'd even like the install/uninstall "feature" of phantasm.
Look at Apple's dumping of the Font/DA Installer for the Macs after the IIGS
proved that subdirectories is the way to go. 

>
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