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

[Iain Duncan]

Re the first point, this is in conflict with what I received from others in
another thread. So if there are other opinions on this I would still like
to hear.

Re the second, that's a different issue, and I am literally working on it
right now. Please note that that ticket was not closed, nor did I indicate
anywhere that it was solved in rc3.

iain

On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 8:38 AM Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You don't and shouldn't need declare at all, you just have a single
> external and its name is the same as the folder's name "s4pd".
>
> The object should be able to load files on the same folder as the help
> patch or in folders relative to it, but it still can't (with version rc3).
>
> Em sáb., 9 de out. de 2021 às 12:09, Iain Duncan <
> iainduncanlists at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> 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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