[PD-dev] pd.app & internal paths

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
james tittle hat gesagt: // james tittle wrote:

> ...back to working on the app_pkg stuff, and I have a question:  how  
> are we supposed to access the internally-kept abstractions?   
> Currently, pd++.app/Contents/Resources/extra & pd++.app/Contents/ 
> Resources/doc/5.reference seem to be the only places that are in pd's  
> path by default, yet there is also the pd++.app/Contents/Resources/ 
> doc/abstractions folder that includes footils/list-abs, among other  
> things:  what is the strategy to access this?

Actually this may be a good time to generally discuss how to deal with
abstractions. In my opinion there should be a common place for
abstractions like "extra" is for externals. No messing with the
Pd-path should be necessary to see these abstractions. 

Of course we could simply use "extra" as well. Personally I prefer to
keep abstractions and externals apart. But I would really like to see
an "install target" for abstractions as well. I would vote for
"PD_ROOT/abs/", and maybe also a special help path
"PD_ROOT/doc/6.abs.reference/" to put the help files for these
abstractions. (All [list]-abs files contain proper help patches.)

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__