[PD][proposal] pd externs/extra/abs policy

[Mark Khemma]

two naive but related questions:
1) where would i find/make a .pdrc?
1a) how would a write a .pdrc script (syntax)?
2) where should i put gem packages
thanks,
-mark k.
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > Mark Khemma hat gesagt: // Mark Khemma wrote:
> >
> > The two 'official' places are /usr/lib/pd/externs and /usr/lib/pd/extra,
> >
> > [if someone could explain the difference, I'd like to know why there are
> > two standard directories in the PD distribution.]
> >
> it's quite simple (i believe):
> guenter started his linux port of pd with this pd/externs folder that
> was searched automatically (?)
> miller then adopted this idea, but unfortunately chose pd/extra as a
> standard search-path.
> so in a "normal" (miller) pd-distribution you should only have a
> pd/extra path.
> in a debianized distribution (guenter) you will have the (now
> additional) pd/externs. distributions modified at iem are likely to be
> derived from guenter's.
>
>
> anyhow, there is no reason to have two different directories for the
> same purpose.
> additionally, the pd/externs directory is not searched by default, so
> users have to add the search-path to there .pdrc/startup-script by hand
> anyway if they want to use it.
>
> i am not sure, whether it really is a good idea, to use the pd/extra for
> normal libraries such as Gem,...
> i would prefer (but i admit: it's mainly for historical reasons, since
> most of our pc's here are already setup with this ominous pd/externs
> folder) three independant search-paths (instead of two), with a clear
> policy::
> -- pd/extra : for extras that ship with pd (toys, like fiddle~,...
> everything that is in the pd/extra by default now); it should *not* be
> touched by add-on installations (see below)
> -- pd/externs : for add-on external libraries (such as motex, ggee,...)
> and only libraries (only *.dll/*.pd_linux/*.pd_irix)
> -- pd/abs : for add-on abstractions (such as parts of the iemlib-library)
>
> mfg.cd.sar
> IOhannes
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