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 <zmoel...@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/ > FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/MacOSXDirectories/ > MacOSXDirectories.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list > > -- ____________________ m.e.grimm, m.f.a, ed.m. syracuse u., tc3 megrimm.net ____________________
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