[LAD] SC3-- Help !

[nescivi]

Hi Fons,

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:30:33 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> (Hoping there's SC3 expert on the list)

yes, I'm here :)

> I haven't been using SC3 for some time, but now I have
> to revive some of my work from years ago. As before i'm
> controlling it from Emacs.
>
> The current release refuses to run my old code, apparently
> because it loads/stores synthdefs from/to
> ~/share/SuperCollider/synthdefs instead of ./synthdefs.

> Re-running all the definitions stores them in the new
> place and then things work. But the last thing I want
> is to have all synthdefs in one giant heap. They are
> always very specific to a particular composition, and
> I want to keeo them together with the other files for
> each work.
>
> Is there confituration option to make SC3 revert to
> the old behaviour ?

SynthDef.synthDefDir = "./synthdefs";

You might also be interested in using SynthDescLib, which is more geared 
towards bundling a set of synthdefs.

> More generally, I deeply dislike apps creating
> non-specific directories such as ~/share. If SC3
> wants a per-login directory it should be ~/.SC3
> or something like that.

sk seems to prefer the ~/share/..  approach, so I think that's why we went 
with that...

sincerely,
Marije