Hi all.

This is to announce two double-clickable Mac OS X installers for Pd: one for the official, MSP-approved binary, and another for the unofficial, Mac-friendly CVS build.

Both installers: - include a compact Tcl/Tk installation - divide the Pd distribution into a number of sub-packages: (base, docs, extra, and source/development) - include an optional install of Dave Sabine's pddp because it's really helpful - automatically change the pd to root (and mode to 4755) for real-time operation - install a double-clickable Pd.command (no smiley-face icon yet) in / Applications - hopefully allow people to get started on Pd without touching the command-line at all.

http://homepage.mac.com/atl/sw

Pd version 0.36-0, official build: http://homepage.mac.com/atl/.cv/atl/Public/pd-0.36.dmg-link.dmg

Pd version 0.36-0b1, unofficial, extended package: http://homepage.mac.com/atl/.cv/atl/Public/pd-0.36-extended.dmg-link.dmg

3.6 Megabytes each, for everything included.

Some modifications in the extended package, which reflect a lot of the CVS-based work: - Extensive reworking of the GUI, including: - native MacOSX-style menus and keyboard shortcuts - proper right-click/control-click behavior - opening of html documentation in a browser - configurable colored patch cords and shadowed objects - Enabled use of a ~/.pdrc configuration file (include hyphenated options, one per line) - Different loading of externals and libraries, avoiding crashes between two libraries that try to define the same symbol (but introducing some incompatabilities: I know of Thomas Grill's pyext - let me know of any others.) - Modified documentation for better screen display

enjoy, adam