Le 15/11/2012 22:02, Adriaan van Os a écrit :
Maurice Lombardi wrote:
Le 15/11/2012 10:05, Adriaan van Os a écrit :
Maurice Lombardi wrote:
So, to be sure I understand: GIMP-2.6.12-SnowLeopard-Lion.dmg the last which uses X11, contains 2.hfs/GIMP 2.6.12 SnowLeopard Lion/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/lib which contains the libjpeg.dylib libpng.dylib and libtiff.dylib we need as addons in grx. Where the content of this /lib will go when installed ? not to /usr/lib ? not even symlinked to there.
On Mac OS X, a .app folder is an application package. So, what you are seeing here is not an install package, but the contents of a ready-to-run application with private .dylibs that are not shared with other applications.
So, if several applications, say GRX and GIMP, use the same addons dylibs, there are several copies of the same on the disk, and also in memory if they are run simultaneously. This is really not economical. May be Apple thinks that nowadays all kind of memories are cheap and abundant. So why spare some ? Anyway this is a sure way to avoid version conflicts.
Maurice