[PD] gem installation on mac os 10.3.9

[rene beekman]

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

>> but why does one need to create a patch first in order to get the 
>> preference menu????
>
> because this is a bug ?

that would very much explain it :)

>> as for putting gem.pd_darwin in the extra folder;
>> when using the separate distributions of both gem and pd, installing 
>> into the .app bundle makes updating needlessly cumbersome - this is 
>> the reason for the existence of the Application Support folder on os 
>> x....
>
> maybe it would be a good idea, to add the Application Support folder 
> to the standard search path for pd on osX. (but i don't know)

more precisely a standard folder __within Application Support - so full 
path would be something like "/Library/Application Support/Pd/"
but sounds like a good idea to me

rene