[Sc-devel] Re: SynthDef default dir moves to inside userAppSupportDir

[Joshua Parmenter]

I think this looks great Dan... thanks!

josh

On Oct 3, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Dan Stowell wrote:

> OK, here's a patch. It modifies the SynthDef class as before; but it
> also modifies the server's behaviour as I described. For Mac users
> this means:
>
> * synthdefs are now written/read in ~/Library/Application
> Support/SuperCollider/synthdefs by default (i.e. the lang writes
> there, the synth reads there)
> * SC_SYNTHDEF_PATH now overrides the default if it's set, rather than
> the default always being scanned.
> * the default path for standalone builds should be the same (i.e. will
> look inside the standalone bundle)
>
> If someone wanted the old behaviour back (i.e. to look in the current
> working directory) they'd do something like
>   export SC_SYNTHDEF_PATH=./synthdefs
> before running.
>
> I believe this is going to be safe on Linux/Win but feedback from
> those in the know would be good :)
>
> Any objections to committing this?
>
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