[PD] gem installation on mac os 10.3.9

[rene beekman]

james tittle wrote:
>>> 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
>
> ...when I first saw this, I wondered why you put this there?  I don't  
> remember that being the "new" place to put things:  I used to think I  
> kept up to date on all of the osx-specific changes, but apparently  
> somethings are missed...in any event, we used to (and I still do) use  
> "~/Library/Pd" to place externals...

see  
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ 
BPFileSystem/Articles/WhereToPutFiles.html>
one can argue whether externals and libraries are plugins or support  
files and where they should go.
my choice was Application Support - but that also might be in part  
because i'm used to cycling74 putting max externals there....

rene