On Jun 16, 2008, at 3:46 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
With this release of Pd-extended, all platforms have default
locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc. I just
had a thought, perhaps ~/.pd would be a better directory than ~/ pd. Any thoughts on that?i would rather have the configuration file(s) move into ~/.pd/ this way it is easy to add conffiles for other Pd-related stuff
without cluttering the ~ even more.Here's how it is now: GNU/Linux: /usr/share/pd and ~/pd
ouch! according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (http:// www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/ fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA), this directory
is reserved for "Architecture-independent data". traditional ("C") externals do not exactly fall into this category.
Any suggestions for a better location? I know /usr/share/pd is not
ideal, but I couldn't think of anything better.
.hc
fgmard IOhannes
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