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

[Iain Duncan]

Answering my own question for the archives:

Switching file finding to use canvas_open in the external seems to have
fixed the issue. I can now load successfully with no file path set in
preferences by using [declare -path s4pd]. :-)

iain


On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 8:43 AM Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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