[PD-dev] s4pd packaging: issues with [declare -path]

[Iain Duncan]

Oh I think I might have stumbled on the answer, but confirmation would be
lovely. I was using open_via_path to find the file, is it that I need to
use canvas_open for the declare path to work?

iain

On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 8:02 AM Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks, I'm still working on the packaging of s4pd with regard to
> finding scheme files, and am almost there, but having some weirdness with
> [declare -path]. It was recommended to me that I advise people in the docs
> to put a [declare -path s4pd] in their patches so that finding scm files
> would "just work".
>
> My understanding is that this would add the s4pd path to their file path,
> meaning that files in that dir should get found, just as if one had put it
> explicitly into the Pd path preferences. However, this doesn't seem to do
> that on MacOS.
>
> I run make install, and it puts my stuff in ~/Library/Pd/, so that there
> is a directory, ~/Library/Pd/s4pd, with all the files, at the same level as
> the external. But if I try to use a patch with an s4pd object and a
> [declare -path s4pd], the declare path appears to make no difference: I
> still need to go add ~/Library/Pd/s4pd to file preferences for the files to
> be found.
>
> Hopefully someone can clear up what is happening here, or my
> misunderstanding of what the declare is supposed to do.
>
> thanks!
>
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