On 2010-12-14 15:31, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I believe the objection you mention is that Pd-extended automatically creates ~/pd-externals. ~/pd-externals is the standard user-install path for Pd-vanilla and Pd-extended.
since i think that lorenzo relates to me raising the issues, i can confirm that i am indeed concerned with pd-extended automatically creating the ~/pd-externals folder.
i don't mind so much if the ~/pd-externals folder is searched automatically, but why would anybody want to have an empty folder in their home-directory.
No sudo or root access needed.
people who are able to copy a file from ~/Downloads/superduper into ~/pd-externals can probably be expected to be able to create a ~/pd-externals directory. for externals that come with an installation routine (for users who are not willing to copy files around manually), this can create the directory as well.
ghmsdft IOhannes