[PD] New deken feature, create system user folder

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 20:36:44 CEST 2017


I can add, again, the example that Max uses ~/Documents for installing
plug-in externals and stuff.

just saying...

Yeah, some softwares will use ~/Library, but not like we're using, that is
a "Pd" folder in ~/Library, but choose ~/Library/Application
Support/SoftwareName instead.

Moreover, softwares that do that and install plug-ins there have a better
plug-in install manager that makes things easy for the user, and actually
do not make the user go there to do that stuff. We don't have such a user
friendly manager like that with deken (far from it), so an easy (or, better
put, "*easier*" alternative) would be to use a more accessible and
friendlier target, like Max, Arduino, Processing do.

I could go for either way, but thought it was simpler and easier to set a
new target folder.

cheers

2017-04-06 14:13 GMT-03:00 me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com>:

> yeah this might be apple "conceptual" method but it seems in practice
> applications (lately?) are preferring to use ~/Documents as the catchall
> for libs,user created docs, examples, etc.
>
> so processing, for example, in ~/Documents has folders:
>
> examples
> libraries
> modes
> templates
> tools
>
> similar for arduino although default install online has
> ~/Documents/Arduino/libraries
>
> now that I am looking I even have an "Adobe" folder here where it looks
> like is stored all presets, user preferences, logs etc. AND in they
> un-typically install plugins/libs in /Applcations/Adobe */Plugins
>
> there are prob many other examples of softwares throwing lib folders all
> over OSX
>
> processing/arduino also make folders in ~/Libraries but they seem to be
> only preferences...
>
> cheers
> m
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:22 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-04-06 06:20, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
>> > A parallel discussion in this thread is that the system folders change
>> in
>> > MacOS, since ~/Library/Pd is an unusual and inconvenient place for that
>> (an
>> > example is processing using ~/Documents instead)
>>
>> i think ~/Documents is for user-created documents, whereas ~/Libraries
>> is for storing resources related to an application, such as plugins and
>> libraries [1].
>> afaict, a Pd-library (e.g. downloaded via deken) very much belongs into
>> the category of "plugins and libraries", rather than "user-created
>> documents".
>> so according to Apple's guidelines, ~/Library/Pd seems to be the correct
>> place to install Pd-libraries into.
>>
>> iiuic, ~/Documents/Pd would be used for storing the patches you are
>> currently working on. this probably should be the default working
>> directory on OSX (i unfondly remember the days when it used to be '/')
>>
>> i think the processing analogy also only takes the being-worked-on
>> documents into account, rather than reusable libraries.
>>
>> (as i sidenote, this makes it out of the scope for deken (so nothing
>> that *i* would implement ;-)))
>>
>> fgmsdrt
>> IOhannes
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Fi
>> leManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/MacOSXDir
>> ectories/MacOSXDirectories.html
>>
>>
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