On Jun 17, 2008, at 8:44 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Mike McGonagle wrote:
Hans, While I don't really have any feelings about this external
directory, it would be nice to have a different properties file
from what Vanilla Pd uses, this way we can have two different
setups, and they won't interfere with each other.i very much like this. for the linux-packages, i therefore would also ask to:
- install into /usr/lib/pd-extended/ rather than /usr/lib/pd/
- startup as /usr/bin/pd-extended rather than /usr/bin/pd
- use a different settings file (e.g. ~/.pd/pd-extended.settings)
- remove the package-conflict between pure-data and pd-extended
for the user who prefers to start Pd via the menu, this will not
change much.for the user who prefers running Pd from the console (or scripts)
this will eventually require a change, which could be alleviated by
using "alternatives" (man update-alternatives)
This is a separate issue. I am talking about a common directory for
user-installed files. Windows and Mac OS X have pretty clear folders
for this. It gets muddy on GNU/Linux if we want the Pd-extended
packages not to conflict with user-installed Pd versions, otherwise
it should be /usr/local/lib/pd. Or perhaps it should be:
~/pd-externals/ /usr/local/lib/pd-externals/
.hc
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