[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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