[PD-dev] auto-starting loaders

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 17, 2009, at 5:29 PM, András Murányi wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
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> It would be super userful to have an easy way to make the various  
> loaders auto-load (Lua, Tcl, libdir, etc).  For the 0.43 GUI  
> plugins, currently, it will autoload any file called *-plugin.tcl  
> anywhere in the path, so to install a 0.43 GUI plugin, you just drop  
> the file into the Pd path and restart.
>
>
> I still don't understand why is it better to have plugins all around  
> the patch than having them in one plugin directory.
> Do we expect libs and abstractions having plugins bundled with them?  
> Or is it for being able to administer them from the same place as  
> path dirs?


In Debian-speak:
/usr/lib/pd/startup - plugins included with a package
/usr/lib/pd-externals - plugins in a separate package
~/pd-externals - user-installed plugins

In Mac OS X speak:
Pd.app/Contents/Resources/startup - plugins included with a package
/Library/Pd - admin-installed plugins
~/Library/Pd - user-installed plugins

.hc

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