[PD-dev] [PD] Mac OS X installers - BUG

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Saturday, Oct 25, 2003, at 11:28 America/New_York, B. Bogart wrote:

> Hey Hans,
>
> I downloaded the current macOSX installer from your pure-data site. I  
> think
> this might have already been reported but PD does not get installed
> correctly if you specifiy a non-root folder for the installation.  
> Probably
> makes sense to #1 set the installation target in the package so that  
> the
> user cannot change it or #2 (longer term) make the PD system relative  
> so
> that it can be installed in any place (like all of it in  
> applications). I
> think Matt is working on this?

Yeah, I should mention that somewhere.  You shouldn't install any of  
those packages anywhere besides default unless you _really_ know what  
you are doing; you'll have to do some clean-up.  I left it like that in  
case someone wants to do something unorthodox.  In the long run, yes,  
it should have postinstall scripts that fix everything up to work  
properly wherever its installed.  But I have run out of time for now  
for working on this, and its not very high on the TODO list.

As for Matt, I think he is working on making an /Applications/Pure  
Data.app wrapper for Pd based on the Wish Shell.app, which would make  
Pd behave a lot more like a regular MacOS X app.

.hc

> Also for the Windows installer the "abstactions" folder that is  
> created is
> not added to the path for the PD batch file.
>
> Ben
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at eds.org>
> To: "roc" <principio at ilimit.es>
> Cc: <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] PD Mac OS X installers
>
>
>
> It gives you a working Pd install with lots of externals.  But of
> course it has its problems, as all Pd installs do.  I now exclusively
> use the installers when I am using Pd.  Its just so much easier than
> compiling everything yourself.  But actually, you can compile the
> package yourself quite easily.  Just check everything out and in
> packages/darwin_pkg, type "make darwin_pkg".
>
> If you do use the installer and find problems, please report them to
> the pd-dev list.
>
> .hc
>
> On Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, at 06:25 America/New_York, roc wrote:
>
>> this may be a silly question, but i been somehow out of the world
>> recently
>> is the installer for os x 0.37 ready and totally ok finally?
>> ; >-)
>>
>> r
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