I have some remarks about the PD-extended Istallers for OSX and would be interested, if those things were discussed here before.

Its basically about

1) Settings and Startup

2) help-flies

1) If it looks right to me there are 3 ways to determine paths and libs on OSX and i am not quite sure if i am doing something wrong or if it just has not been considered.

You can change the settings in the TCL-Interface of PD, but there are not enough lines, to see all the necessary entries, in the /Library/ Preferences/org.puredata.plist file and vie a.pdrc file.

They do not really interact, i mean if you change something in the pdrc file it is not written in the org.puredata.plist file, right ?

This might cause confusion to a OSX PD-Beginner right ?

2) There are so many paths to the help-files if the doc-folder has so many subfolders, which is good and necessary to keep it structured, but that way the good-old "right-click"-help does not always work. And especially for beginners it is so good to be able to just browse through the examples or reference-files and quickly open the "help- files"

I still did not really understand if there is a different syntax for "help-files" or is it just another "lib"-entry ? How do folk out there manage these things ? Is it good to use "Aliases" or symbolic links here ??

By the way there are two gcanvas-externals. One in "ggee" and one in "flatspace"...is that good ?

Ok..so far..have a good time

Ciao

Luigi





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