[PD-dev] including [dssi~] in Pd-extended

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 5, 2006, at 2:07 PM, cdr wrote:

> On Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 06:50:25PM +0000, cdr wrote:
>>> Yes, and Debian is great for that.  So the debian packages would not
>>> have to include them.
>>>
>>> But Pd also runs on Windows and Mac OS X.  And there are far more Pd
>>> users running Windows and Mac OS X.  So I think its also  
>>> important to
>>> consider other platforms when we are talking about such things.
>>
>> its already very easy to install anything on mac os X:
>>       1 search the web
>>       2 click into site for the software you want
>>       3 click 'download' tab
>>       4 click download link
>>       5 click 'download now' so you dont have to wait 12 seconds
>>       6 minimize all windows
>>       7 find the compressed disk image on your desktop
>>       8 uncompress the disk image
>>       9 mount the disk image
>>       10 open up the folder on disk where you want to put it
>>       11 copy stuff off the disk image
>>       12 unmount the disk image
>>       13 delete disk image and compressed disk image
>>       14 run the app (and hope it works on 10.4.5 or maybe 10.3.1  
>> instead of just 10.4.69)
>
> woops, forgot
>        14.5 foreach dependency {goto 1}
>        16 Pay $35 for the program that lets you drag stuff from  
> safari to the desktop so it stops popping up shareware warnings
>
> anyways im sure an interesting afternoon project would be to  
> recreate portage's 'SVN/CVS ebuild' feature in pd-extended's  
> autotools scripts.  so it could automagicaly download the deps like  
> LADSPA/FluidSynth/PA19 for MacOSX and MinGW users who dont have  
> such capabilities innate in their OS..

Don't let me stop you from doing that.

But (unfortunately?), Pd-extended doesn't use autotools, only make.   
It think it would be really great to have one central externals/ 
configure which makes a externals/config.h which externals would then  
use.  Then people would not have to figure out autotools to use it,  
they would just need to #include "../config.h" and use #ifdef  
HAVE_BLAHBLAH.

.hc


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