[PD-dev] Gui plugins management (Was: I have 3 broken installs)

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> To: pd-dev at iem.at
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> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] Gui plugins management (Was: I have 3 broken installs)
> 

[...]

> How about we start with adding only the required mechanism so that people
> can make all sorts of plugin management plugins.  Then revisit the rest
> later once we have a good idea of how it should be done.  Making the plugin
> loader ignore a folder called DISABLED/ would make it possible to do what
> you describe in a regular plugin.
> 
> .hc

Do you want to require plugins to live in one specific "startup" directory that
has user permissions to read/write/exec?  If so, then I think the "startup/disabled"
directory idea is adequate.

On the other hand, if you want Pd to search the standard paths for plugins
then the "startup/disabled" idea is incompatible with that, no?  Permission problems
abide, plus when you want to re-enable a plugin how does Pd know which directory
it previously lived in?

-Jonathan