[PD-dev] shell scripting in an install

[guenter geiger]

It would be great if we had a configure panel for pd. someone
wrote something like this, right ? Just can't remember
the link.

Guenter

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Looks good overall.  I just have one comment about the appending to the
> .pdrc.  Its a tough thing to handle overall, overwrite?, append?, skip if
> exists?.  I guess it depends on the target audience.  And since its for
> MacOS, the append is the best option for the default.  But is there a way
> that the installer could ask a question, whether to overwrite, append, or
> ignore the .pdrc?
>
> .hc
>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Adam Lindsay wrote:
>
> > Hi folks.
> >
> > I just wanted to do a sanity check for the postinstall script in my
> > proposed MacOSX installer. It attempts to give a .tcshrc and .pdrc to
> > those who don't already have them. Please, no flames about tcsh--it's
> > still the default shell in MacOSX to the best of my knowledge, and it's
> > the shell I know best.
> >
> > The intention is to prep the command line for those who don't like to use
> > it, but to be kind enough to people who are able to hack their own
> > dotfiles (and not clobber anything too important, which is why everything
> > is an append).
> >
> > Comments before I turn this into a package?
> >
> > #!/bin/tcsh
> >
> > # root/realtime trick
> > /usr/sbin/chown root /usr/local/pd/bin/pd
> > /bin/chmod 4755 /usr/local/pd/bin/pd
> >
> > # make a few home/Library directories for future expansion
> > /bin/mkdir -p $HOME/Library/Pd/Help
> > /bin/mkdir $HOME/Library/Pd/Externals
> > /bin/mkdir $HOME/Library/Pd/AdditionalDocumentation
> >
> > # add a path
> > if ( ! `grep -sc /usr/local/pd/bin $HOME/.tcshrc` ) echo 'set path = ( /
> > usr/local/pd/bin $path )' >>! $HOME/.tcshrc
> >
> > echo -rt >>! $HOME/.pdrc
> > echo -path ~/Library/Pd/Externals >> $HOME/.pdrc
> > echo -helppath ~/Library/Pd/Externals >> $HOME/.pdrc
> > echo -path /Library/Pd/Externals >> $HOME/.pdrc
> > echo -helppath /Library/Pd/Externals >> $HOME/.pdrc
> > echo -guishadow >> $HOME/.pdrc
> > echo -cordcolor >> $HOME/.pdrc
> >
> > --
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> >  Adam T. Lindsay                      atl at comp.lancs.ac.uk
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