On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:20:32AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 16:08 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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.
I would second the suggestion someone made of a .pd-extended (with dot) folder in the user's home as that seems quite standard for many linux apps... Of course I'm not sure how much this would break existing libraries which rely on the pd-extended folder.
That's a common suggestion. Frank made a good case for it not to be a . file, you can see the threads at the bottom here:
http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files
Did you interperet Frank's comment:
The home path isn't important anyway as every user probably has her own file layout for home. And I don't think that every home should be standardized, I like it if all my friends' homes look different.
to mean that he doesn't agree with a dot file? I am not sure if that's a correct reading. Seems more like a whimsical off-hand comment than a reason to break with forty two years of unix tradition.
If you don't like ~/.pd-externals the other thing you could do is follow the free desktop standard and put it in one of ~/.config/pd-externals ~/Templates/pd-externals ~/Documents/pd-externals or something? There must be a precedent for this.
"pd-extras" would seem like a more apt name to me too.
Sorry to be a trouble maker. I should say that I totally love this new feature and many thanks for lobbying to get it into Pd/MSP.
Cheers,
Chris.