Re: [AD] standard path updates

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On January 5, 2011, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> On 5 Jan 2011, at 18:24 , Peter Hull wrote:
> > (bundle)
> > EXENAME_PATH:
> > /Users/peterhull/Projects/allegro/patches/build/examples/GetPath.app/Con
> > tents/MacOS/ex_get_path
> 
> So the only real question here, then, is whether this is what you'd
> normally expect to get for the "executable path" of an application bundle,
> or if you'd expect the path to the bundle itself. I can't think of many
> reasons for wanting the location of the bundle, but I can think of even
> fewer reasons for wanting the actual path to the executable within the
> bundle. Personally I would opt for returning the path to the bundle here.
> 
> Thanks for picking this up, by the way. :)

I think in the bundle case, you /probably/ want to get the Bundle path. Not 
the embedded exe path. But I'm not an OSX expert.

> Evert
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