[PD] managing freeframe and frei0r plugins WAS: pidip

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 02/07/2013 04:30 PM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:
> On 02/07/2013 08:55 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> The One Install Folder to Rule Them All makes it very easy to install stuff.
>> Separate folders would be messy in a different way, then we'd need folders for:
>>
> 
> actually, frei0r defines their own plugin installation path [1], which makes
> it easy to share frei0r plugins between multiple host applications (which i
> think is more interesting that putting them into ~/pd-externals/ where nobody
> but Pd will find them)
> 
> i'm not aware of such a thing for freeframe though.

That makes a lot of sense for Debian and other systems with good package
management.  That doesn't really apply for Mac OS X and Windows...

.hc