On Jun 17, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Steffen Juul wrote:
Since this is about user installed externals, why not let each user
choose what colour they want their bike shed?
For the same reason that "/usr/share" has a clearly defined purpose.
I am not going to prevent people from doing whatever they want, but
it helps a lot to have one clearly defined standard way of doing it.
I think I am going to go with /usr/local/lib/pd-externals and ~/pd-
externals. Then people can also map their vanilla, desiredata,
whatever installs to use this location as a common place to install
externals, if they so desire.
.hc
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