From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-06-01T01:19:49+09:00
Subject: Re: one click annihilator


On May 31, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

> On 5/29/06, Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au> wrote:
>> Curt Hibbs wrote:
>> > We'll add an alert dialog telling you that the entire dircetory  
>> will be
>> > deleted and giving you the option to proceed or abort.
>>
>> FWIW, I far prefer this proposal to the alternative of _not_ deleting
>> the whole installation directory.
>
> I think that might get mucky, since the directory structure might
> change from release to release and things like that.
>
> My employer always sticks ruby scripts I write for him in with the
> ruby distribution.  This drives me bonkers, I have no idea why he does
> this.
>
> Is this common practice on Windows?  I'd prefer to leave my code OUT
> of places where it can get mixed in with an active distribution.  I
> don't know, maybe it's just an
> (only-uses-windows-when-absolutely-necessary) type coders point of
> view, but sliding my scripts into C:\ruby seems to be begging for
> problems.

I think it comes from the fairly useless "home" directories on  
windows (and Mac OS actually).  You have My Documents (Documents on  
Mac), but almost every program tries to stick stuff in there it  
shouldn't.  So I find people try to avoid it cause they don't know  
what half of it is.
-Mat