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Posted on 2008-07-17 14:47 By acer (Maple Rating 4 1107)
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The pair of (desktop icon) image files Maple12Classic.png and Maple12.png could more sensibly be installed in some location such as the $MAPLE/etc directory.

Having them get installed, as in Maple 12, to $MAPLE/bin is a little strange.

The usual use of bin directories is for executables, and not binaries in general. Eg. some other binary objects such as shared object libraries may be in lib/, and text shell-scripts may also be in bin/. So the fact thet .png files are "binary" isn't any good reason to place them in bin/.

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old habits?

Comment on 2008-07-19 09:39 from JacquesC (Maple Rating 4 1655)

.ico files used to have to be in the same directory as the executable.  So maybe they were put there because "that's how it used to be done"?

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