[PD] Re: [PD-dev] Draft Templates for PD reference Files

[Krzysztof Czaja]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
...
> The tcl-mac people have handled this quite well.  With the AppMain.tcl  
...
> application.  Mac OS X reads a property list from within each .app to  
> see which file types that .app supports, what its application and file  
...
> means you can have as many copies of Pd running as you have copies of  
> Pd on your hard drive.  But it automatically prevents you from starting  
> a copy of the same .app.

that is great, thanks for explaining.

The "file://" interface, once it is working (transparently) in
other systems too, might be a better choice as the default way to
access the documentation, than localhost "http://".  One drawback
of "file://":  there would have to be a single directory subtree
shared by .pd, .html, and all other kinds of files.  Pddpserver
allows to keep them arbitrarily separate.

Anyway, the pddpserver, after being extended with cgi handling,
could then stay as a user-requested option, providing full access
with queries, etc.

Krzysztof