directory layout for pd-extended on OS X - Pd-list

17 Nov 2007


      On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, pd-list-request@iem.at wrote:
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Actually, that reminds me, I would like to have the Pd-extended
package use a directory for people to install their own externals.
On Mac OS X, it's /Library/Pd following those conventions.  I am
thinking that /usr/local/lib/pd/ should be the user-installed stuff,
with everything going in there (i.e. help patches, binaries, and .pd
files).  Then the .deb should install into /usr/lib.  This means it
would conflict with the 'puredata' package that's included in Debian,
but it's the "proper" way to do it.
.hc
If you wanted to truly follow the OS X directory layout, externals and 
such installed by the Application should be in:
/Library/Applcation Support/Pd
while user-installed externals etc. would go in:
~/Library/Applcation Support/Pd
Which would allow different users on the same system to have different 
configurations.
BTW, extended is looking really nice on Leopard, no crashing here. :)
Thanks for the hard work.
Andrew