[PD] gem installation on mac os 10.3.9
rene beekman
r at raakvlak.net
Tue Jul 12 17:53:09 CEST 2005
james tittle wrote:
>>> maybe it would be a good idea, to add the Application Support folder
>>> to the standard search path for pd on osX. (but i don't know)
>>>
>>
>> more precisely a standard folder __within Application Support - so
>> full path would be something like "/Library/Application Support/Pd/"
>> but sounds like a good idea to me
>
> ...when I first saw this, I wondered why you put this there? I don't
> remember that being the "new" place to put things: I used to think I
> kept up to date on all of the osx-specific changes, but apparently
> somethings are missed...in any event, we used to (and I still do) use
> "~/Library/Pd" to place externals...
see
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
BPFileSystem/Articles/WhereToPutFiles.html>
one can argue whether externals and libraries are plugins or support
files and where they should go.
my choice was Application Support - but that also might be in part
because i'm used to cycling74 putting max externals there....
rene
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