[PD] ~/pd or ~/.pd for user's externals directory

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Wed Jun 18 15:51:24 CEST 2008


On Jun 18, 2008, at 8:31 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>> Hallo,
>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think I am going to go with /usr/local/lib/pd-externals and ~/pd-
>>>> externals.
>>>
>>> What about abstractions?
>>
>> True... got any suggestions for a better name? "externals" is such a
>> vague term anyway.  This folder is intended for any kind of
>> objectclass, binary or ASCII, as well as helpfiles.
>
> Am I understanding it correctly, that these are just a paths
> pd-extended will include to the defaults in its settings? Then I'd use
> /usr/local/lib/pd/extra and for home maybe ~/pd/extra or just ~/pd.

Yes.

> The home path isn't important anyway as every user probably has her
> own file layout for home. And I don't think that every home should be
> standardized, I like it if all my friends' homes look different.

I'd rather not be mislead by metaphors.  This is software, if the  
software package sets up the environment for us, then we all have to  
do less work to get things running.  Personally, I'd rather make art  
than manage a million different home directory configurations, and  
all the problems that arise from that.

.hc

>
> Ciao
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