> > VST's are stored as relative paths now, at least in presets and projects > (where it counts).
In which version? This is definitely not true for a new project using 0.9.9.1 on Windows. I just tested to re-confirm in both the "working directory" as well as the "VstPlugins" directory. Working Directory: > [image: Inline image 2] VstPlugins Directory: > [image: Inline image 1] Snipping? Screen capture - Vista and higher (the highlight and annotation features I particularly like, and CTRL+C, CTRL+V pastes directly into Gmail, GitHub, ImgUr) [image: Inline image 3] -Tres - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Vesa <dii....@nbl.fi> wrote: > On 02/25/2014 02:43 AM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote: > > Well, the only OS I've really felt comfortable recommend it to an end > > user is MacOS, where it has it built into the context menus: "Create > > Alias". Unfortunately, Apple is so ignorantly simple that you can > > only create "Aliases" in their own directories, which breaks for stuff > > owned by root (forcing user to fall back to a terminal, which is a bit > > taboo on Mac). > > > > Linux started from the terminal so it's a bit more in the culture of > > things to say "ln -s" on a wiki.. > > Nitpicking, but X is actually older than Linux... so arguably it's a bit > of a fallacy to say Linux started from the terminal. > > Back in the 90s, people who used computers were used to the command line > - Microsoft was more known for MS-DOS than it was for Windows. At some > point, hiding functionality behind GUIs has become more important than > actually having the functionality in the first place... which is kind > of stupid. > > Anyway, someone who uses their computer for any kind of productive work > should know their computer a bit better than the average facebooker... > I'm firmly of the opinion that if you aim to do any kind of content > production on a computer, you shouldn't be afraid of learning how the > technology you depend on actually works, at least enough that you can > configure things so that they at least stay out of your way. If an OS > (any OS) doesn't give you any proper tools to do so, then that OS is not > suitable for productive work. > > /offtopic > > > > > Symlink in Windows work pretty well in Vista and higher on NTFS > > formatted volumes using the "mklink" command, but the only software > > I've ever seen make productive use of these Symlinks were malware. > > Since everything has a drive letter assigned, the idea of a symbolic > > directory must be too complicated for the average "power user". I > > actually fantastically enjoy many features of the Windows OS and I've > > grown to enjoy the speed of installing application as well as the vast > > assortment of utilities available for the platform. i.e. I prefer > > Putty over Gnome-Terminal for administering AIX (FYI - they do make > > Putty for Linux now too). I also prefer the snipping tool to anything > > built into any major Linux distro. Mac has a snipping tool, but > > there's no laucher icon for it, so you have to know the magic three > > finger salute, which I find myself Googling every few months or so. > > Snipping? > > You're of course entirely free to use any platform you feel comfortable > with. > > > > > I also find Java applications to generally be more predictable on > > Windows, including NetBeans, my choice IDE. It looks terrible on > > Ubuntu and I can never get the shortcut keys right on Mac, but I digress. > > > > The first issue at hand is that VSTs (from my understanding) are > > stored as absolute paths in the config file, which again I feel is > > minor given the other improvements in 1.0.0. > > VST's are stored as relative paths now, at least in presets and projects > (where it counts). > >
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