> i think ~/Documents is for user-created documents, The Processing and Arduino folders in ~/Documents contain a 'libraries' subfolder, which is considered the default place for user-installed libraries. But in the end, that's just the Processing way.
BTW, one thing I don't find so elegant (maybe that has changed now...) is that Deken will ask you *if* it should install the library in the default folder and you have to click 'no' to choose another directory. the question itself is a bit ambiguous and it doesn't seem very intuitive. IMHO it should rather ask you *where* to install by opening the panel. Just my two cents. > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 06. April 2017 um 17:22 Uhr > Von: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [PD] New deken feature, create system user folder > > 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/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/MacOSXDirectories/MacOSXDirectories.html > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
