[PD-dev] add_string_support.patch

[martin.peach at sympatico.ca]

Is there a correct way to use diff to make the paths properly in the first place? Do you have to run it from a particular location or specify a path?
Also I agree that string should be blob (or puredata ;)) since string implies text and it's really able to manipulate any kind of byte data.

Martin
 
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>
> On May 1, 2007, at 2:59 AM, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>:
> >
> >>>
> >>> try "-p 2"
> >>
> >> This is automated, so that would mean changing all the patches in
> >> packages/patches.  I think it would be much easier to change that one
> >> patch to remove the path information.
> >
> > the last one was another mail where i clicked "send" before thinking.
> >
> > the "-p 2" would strip _at most_ the first 2 "path-elements" (see 'man
> > patch' for a better explanation) of the filenames. so
> > "pd/src/g_rtext.c" becomes "g_rtext.c", while "src/g_canvas.c" becomes
> > "g_canvas.c" and "m_pd.h" stays the same.
> >
> > so all patches should apply just as fine as they do now, and the
> > string-support patch would apply too.
> >
> > apart from that, i agree that all patches should be "normalized" in  
> > a way.
> > (and that "string" really should be "blob")
> 
> Feel free to add this stuff to the build system, as long as it works  
> on all platforms.  an older sed is installed on everything in the  
> auto-build farm.  But it might save more trouble in the long run to  
> keep a consistent format.  Hard to say...
> 
> .hc