[PD] managing freeframe and frei0r plugins WAS: pidip

IOhannes zmölnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Fri Feb 8 00:17:13 CET 2013


On 02/07/2013 10:56 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 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...

i think it makes a lot of sense for any operating system:

people should drop externals into ~/pd-externals/ so any version of pd 
can find them.

people should drop frei0r plugins into ~/.frei0r-1/lib/foo/ (ah finally 
an installation path that does not clutter my home directory), so any 
frei0r enabled application can find them.

gfmsrad
IOhannes



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