[PD-dev] Help search; standard external installation paths

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Tue Jan 27 10:19:07 CET 2004


Hallo,
Julius Smith hat gesagt: // Julius Smith wrote:

> On a related topic, it would be nice if there were a standard recommended 
> place to install such help files for pd extensions, e.g., 
> /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/extensions/<packagename>/.  (I have seen 
> /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/<packagename>[help]/ used by some 
> packages.)
> 
> Similarly, it would also be helpful to have a standard recommended 
> directory for installation of externals (and libraries of externals), such 
> as
> /usr/local/lib/pd/extensions/<package-name>/.  I have seen 
> /usr/local/lib/pd/<package-name>/ used by some packages, which leaves it 
> unclear what is an extension and what is native pd.

Actually all externals are an extension to Pd. On the CVS distribution
build, every external is install to /usr/[local/]lib/pd/extra/ all
docs go to doc/5.reference/ without subfolders. I think, installing
all binaries in one directory makes things very easy to understand and
setup. 

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__




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