On Nov 17, 2009, at 5:29 PM, András Murányi wrote:

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:

It would be super userful to have an easy way to make the various loaders auto-load (Lua, Tcl, libdir, etc).  For the 0.43 GUI plugins, currently, it will autoload any file called *-plugin.tcl anywhere in the path, so to install a 0.43 GUI plugin, you just drop the file into the Pd path and restart.

I still don't understand why is it better to have plugins all around the patch than having them in one plugin directory.
Do we expect libs and abstractions having plugins bundled with them? Or is it for being able to administer them from the same place as path dirs?

In Debian-speak:

/usr/lib/pd/startup - plugins included with a package

/usr/lib/pd-externals - plugins in a separate package

~/pd-externals - user-installed plugins

In Mac OS X speak:

Pd.app/Contents/Resources/startup - plugins included with a package

/Library/Pd - admin-installed plugins

~/Library/Pd - user-installed plugin