On Apr 13, 2009, at 4:31 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Apr 9, 2009, at 6:21 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
shouldn't it be a folder "Pd" as well? (to avoid confusion)
There was extensive discussion on this topic in the past, and there was agreement on ~/pd-externals/. Check the archive for details.
the topic mainlyy focused on ~/.pd vs ~/pd and i follow all the arguments back then. however, what i really wanted to ask (and what i actually did ask; i only eventually got caught by ~/.pd and wrote a bit too lengthy on that...; however i did mention that it had been discussed before :-)) is why both w32 and osx have a .../Pd folder whereas on linux it is .../pd-externals. why is it not ~/pd ?
re-reading the entire thread from back then does not kindle the impression that any agreement was made for "~/pd-externals" (though there was agreement not to hide the directory)
At this point I don't remember the why, and I can't seem to find the answer in the archives. Pd-extended 0.40.3 has it set this way, so it would be nice to not have to change it.
I think I remember something about people worried about confusion between /usr/lib/pd, /usr/local/lib/pd, etc and this folder. 'pd- externals' makes it clear that it is not the same as /usr/local/lib/ pd, etc. This folder only really exists on GNU/Linux, so it only needs to be 'pd-externals' on GNU/Linux.
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