This comes with no guarantees. Obviously it has all the Mac IDE bugs that were reported for 6L02. It also has the 6L02 built-in documentation, so that may fail to match up.
However, you can open projects, create new projects, and install extensions, so it may help people get work done.
I haven’t known how to set app associations since the days of ResEdit… what happens if I type “open kerkerkruip.inform” - can I control which app runs it?
I don’t know about doing stuff from the terminal window, but if you’re in the graphical Finder you can select a file and hit command-I to open up the file’s info. A few down there’s a pop-up menu for “Open with…”; every Inform application you have should be on that menu and you can change it. You can even do “Change all” to change the app association for every file with that extension, I think, though in this case you probably don’t want to.
(This is in OS X 10.7.5, I guess. I hope they haven’t changed it.)
Also, that is not the location of the built-in extensions.
Aaah… good news finally. This works:
open -a Inform ~/Library/Inform/Extensions/Aaron\ Reed/Numbered\ Disambiguation\ Choices.i7
…but it works in a weird way! Just dropping files into the 6L38 Extensions directory doesn’t work. But they can be opened from there. When you click “install” it asks, “Version 1/140209 is already installed. Do you want to overwrite this extension?”
…actually, that doesn’t work. It says it was unable to replace the file. And it deletes the file!
Yes. In 6L02 it’s ~/Library/Inform/Extensions. In 6L38 it’s the longer ~/Library/Containers/com.inform7.inform-compiler/… path that you quote. I expect this has something to do with the sandbox process.
My Inform-6L02+38 uses the 6L02 IDE, so everything should be managed in the old spot. The new ni binary is invoked and given the old extension path.