IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Thomas Ouellet Fredericks wrote:
Are you sure it is better to store the extra externals, projects and abstractions in a user specific directory. Max/Msp for XP stores those in a common folder (I think c:\program files\common\max).
user-specific externals and abstractions should not go there, but into a directory specified by the user itself as a user-specific preference. That is how Max should be used, and what is better not changed in Pd.
max/msp need not be a reference for us (esp. on windoze)
sure their design is not perfect, but peeping there and comparing with `ours' is not such a bad idea at all. The two environments are very similar. They are struggling with the very same difficulties, so it would be very strange if none of their solutions had any advantages over proposals discussed here.
Some advantages of Max configuration: it is message-based under the hood, uses patches for all sorts of dialog windows, is more open, flexible, more consistently the Pd way of design.
Krzysztof