So I could not resist and I decided to install Pd-l2Ork (I had to remove my pd-extended though, the .deb package was having a conflict with a file named Gem.pc. But I digress...). I am mind blown about how beautiful this distribution is! And the new features are just amazing (curved cables, new "tidy up" algorithm, bring object to front/back, infinite undos, home and end keys now do work properly when typing), this is a huge step forward in my opinion.

But here are a couple of questions about it:

• does anyone know upon which pd-extended version is the current Pd-l2Ork based on? I tried to read about it but I could not find this info on their website
• Pd-l2Ork does not seem to recognize nor execute my *-plugin.tcl files. Let me guess: this feature is not supported as of yet? (if so, then it's a huge pity, I became so used to the category_menu-plugin.tcl)
• I can't seem to add a new folder to the path. I add it, but when I restart Pd-l2Ork the folder is not on its path and the abstractions there contained cannot be loaded. How can one edit its path?

Thanks a lot!
Gilberto

Little update about the questions:

• Pd-l2Ork does not execute *-plugin.tcl files as pd-extended does
• I managed to add some folders to the path by editing the file ~/.pdl2ork - simply create a new pathN: your-directory-here (where N is the number of the path - default paths are 1-33, so start at 'path34' below 'path33'), then correct the number of total paths (npath: N)

Pd-l2Ork is based on Pd 0.42. The plugin functionality was added in Pd-extended 0.43.
There appears to be a binary compatibility issue with Pd-l2Ork, so Pd-extended objects have to be recompiled for Pd-l2Ork.

Fred Jan

Hi Fred,

Thanks for the info.

I also would like to add some more info to this post: I actually managed to install Pd-l2Ork side-by-side with Pd-extended. Having pd-extended installed on my system, I had then to force the install Pd-l2Ork via $ sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite pd-l2ork-x86_64-20140913.deb, but now both work perfectly well.

Take care,
Gilberto