[PD-dev] Re: Linux-Installer bugfix

[Martin Peach]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

>Hallo,
>Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>>What I meant is that pd-extended would be a debian package with  
>>everything but Pd itself in it.  Then you would be free to install  
>>pd-extended in combo with the Pd of your choosing.  There would be some  
>>problems with compatibility with some of the features of pd-devel if  
>>externals are using them, but other wise it would work.  Maybe there  
>>could be a debian package of just all of the Pd-based files, like  
>>abstractions and doc, then the compiled stuff would be separate.
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>Which reminds me: Debian's policy handles documentation in some
>special way, which I need to read up on, but things like html-docs,
>pdf-Howtos etc. should be in /usr/share/doc/pd-something, whereas we
>can keep the patches in /usr/lib/pd/doc. Moving the files with
>Debian's package tools is easy, however if they are called from Pd
>(like the html-manual) we need to take special care. Though, for now I
>would be happy to get a current package of pd with externals running,
>wherever the docs show up in the end.
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>Ciao
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It might be better to have every pd distibution have the same directory 
strucure under pd/
and then add symlinks/aliases/shortcuts in system-specific directories 
according to the particular distribution for a particular setup of a 
particular operating system operated by a particular human with 
particular taste in directory structure that day.

Martin