[PD] mapping: path setting hell

[Luigi]

Hey List.
	not wanting to offend anybody. But this has some good amount of  
absurdity in it, i think.
And for any Newbie following that its actually quite frightening.

Frank calls his way of doing "hell" and it only includes 3 steps.
And Hans Christoph calls his way "easy" and it includes 10 steps ....

.... monster monster-hell......

Another thing i always found strange about tthe mapping-collection. If  
you want to use the helpfiles
in one of your patches and actually use more then one you get into  
conflicts

What needs to be done to restructure mapping ?? I could help maybe,  
because its a library i used very often and found
it very useful. I would be happy to do something good to that  
library ;-)

All the Best

Luigi

Am 06.04.2009 um 15:58 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:

>
> On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>> Hallo,
>> Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>> 1) SVN/externals - otherwise [center_point] isn't found
>>> 2) SVN/externals/mapping - to find [mapping/reverse] and
>>> [mapping/disjoin]
>>
>> These two were meant to have reversed reasons.
>
> Hmm, because you are doing it wrong?  Try this:
>
> 1. create a single place to store externals, I recommend ~/pd- 
> externals/
> 2. add it to your path
> 3. cd /path/to/pure-data/trunk/abstractions/
> 4. cp -a purepd ~/pd-externals
>
> (mapping is still poorly organized in SVN, so its a bit harder)
>
> 5. cd /path/to/pure-data/trunk/externals/mapping
> 6. mkdir ~/pd-externals/mapping
> 7. cp -a *.pd ~/pd-externals/mapping
> 8. cd help
> 9. cp -a *-help.pd ~/pd-externals/mapping
> 10. touch ~/pd-externals/mapping/mapping-meta.pd
>
> That's it.  Then if you have the libdir.pd_linux loader loaded, you  
> can also load that as a lib using any of the standard methods.   
> (you'll need the libdir.c from SVN).
>
> pd -lib libdir -lib mapping
> declare -lib mapping
> import mapping
>
> .hc
>
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