File location on Mac
Konrad Hofbauer
web2py comes on the mac as application bundle web2py.app (excellent!).
Its natural place (where the user puts it, same as all other apps) is
/Applications/web2py.app
web2py now puts at runtime all its files and data into the
application-bundle, which is quite a no-no on Mac.
The application-bundle should never change (except for updates). Neither
preferences nor user data belong in there.
So what is the "Resources" folder in the app-bundle, the better place
would be ~/Library/Application\ Support/web2py inside the user folder.
Another place could be ~/Sites, but then care would have to be taken
that the system's apache does not share the web2py folders.
1) The user would never expect data in /Applications (I did not even
cross my mind web2py could put its stuff there - i had to create a file
in the GUI and search for it).
2) Stuff in /Applications does normally not get backuped
3) With all in ~/Library web2py is multi-user capable as any other app.
If this is for now too much work to implement, please at least put a
prominent info next to the download link and the server gui. It's really
not obvious on Mac.
Cheers,
/Konrad
