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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New convention for owned resources
Message-ID: <2017.271f4a05@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 19 Oct 90 05:46:29 GMT
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Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Hiya, Michael!

The BNDL idea sounds good. It also makes it much easier to determine
which resources need to be copied when transferring the code to
another place.

Hmmm, I thought of a potential drawback: if you're adding extension
code to an application resource file, would the BNDLs for your
extensions cause any possible confusion with the existing BNDL
for the application itself? Would the Finder still display the
right icons?

Now all we need is Apple's blessing, together perhaps with a new
"Bundle Manager" to manage the mapping from local to global resource
IDs--and perhaps even the bundle copying--in a convenient way...

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-71-562-889
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