[PD] ~/pd or ~/.pd for user's externals directory
Andy Farnell
padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk
Mon Jun 16 18:01:15 CEST 2008
No. Hidden home directory files traditionally have
a special meaning. They are initialisation resources.
~/.something is a place a program will go
to look for startup options (in a particular order
after /var/something ... so that global and multi
user configs can live together)
I know some recent Linux apps have started putting userworld
resources into dot directories, but this is bad practice imho.
2c
andy.
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:49:53 +0200
Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> With this release of Pd-extended, all platforms have default
> locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc. I just had a
> thought, perhaps ~/.pd would be a better directory than ~/pd. Any
> thoughts on that?
>
> Here's how it is now:
>
> GNU/Linux: /usr/share/pd and ~/pd
> Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd
> Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/
> Application Data/Pd
>
> .hc
>
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