[PD] standalone with preferences included on OSX?

[Christof Ressi]

> I will try to go for the script but starting an app from a shell script 
> is not what they are used to :)

Just give it a fancy icon :-D

> Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Januar 2017 um 12:44 Uhr
> Von: enrike <altern2 at gmail.com>
> An: "Christof Ressi" <christof.ressi at gmx.at>
> Cc: "Alex Norman" <x37v.alex at gmail.com>, pd-list at lists.iem.at, "the PureData - mailinglist" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: [PD] standalone with preferences included on OSX?
>
> On or., 2017.eko urtren 13a 12:18, Christof Ressi wrote:
> >> creating a bat script that opens bin/pd.exe with the
> >> right flags to point to the extras and load them.
> >
> > I was just going to suggest that. Since you already did that on windows, what's the reason why that approach doesn't work for you on OSX (with a shell script)? I also don't see why you needed a .exe, the user can just click on the script... or is it just because people are used to launch programs from clicking executables?
> 
> yeah, technophobic art students get scared of anything.
> 
> I will try to go for the script but starting an app from a shell script 
> is not what they are used to :) I wanted to find a solution that would 
> allow me to pass them a copy of PD that they just double click to run 
> with no setup involved at all.
> 
> I know that they would learn more if they would install the extras and 
> set the paths and preferences, but some of them would drop at there
> 
>