Hey all,
As most of you know I'm very annoyed that I can only have one user-wide plist file. This is when I'm testing experimental versions of externals and such, I actually have to rename my plist so that PD does not load it. Ugly solution.
Anyhow I thought another way of fixing the problem of multiple configurations would be negative options when starting PD. Say I have an experimental Gem in ~/libs/ and a stable version in ~/libs/cgc. Assuming my plist (.pdrc) contains a path for the former then I would start PD with this in order to load the unstable version:
pd -without-path ~/libs -path ~/libs/cgc -lib Gem
So that we could turn on, and more importantly off, any options in the plist that we don't want for this run.
Anyhow just an idea.
Maybe there are not that many people out there with 4 different versions of libs on their machines? (For Gem I have: experimental, cgc, vertex array, multiple gem-window etc..)
Some kind of configuration manager would also do the job, as would the ability to switch to a global configuration (plist) file (pd -pdrc ~/mine.plist).
B.