[PD-dev] relative paths in the prefs system

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:17 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>
>> It would be extremely handy if the preference system understood
>> relative paths.  Then, for example, I could have each lib compiled as
>> individual files in a folder named after the lib.  Then to include  
>> that
>> lib, you could just go to the Paths... preference panel and type in  
>> the
>> lib name, e.g. "cyclone" and it would look in
>> /path/to/pd/extra/cyclone.
>>
>> Anyone ever tried this?  Any problems with this?
>
> Hm, doesn't this break Geiger namespaces?

If the translation to an absolute path is early enough, it should be  
fine.  So if the relative paths are translated to absolute paths right  
after being read from the .pdrc or similar file, or the "Path..."  
preference pane, then Pd itself will only keep track of absolute paths,  
but humans could use relative paths to tell Pd where to look.

It should be a minor fix, I am going to give it a shot.

.hc

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