[PD] Pd and GEM installation woes

Inta Ridler inta at interlog.com
Sat Jul 26 05:42:47 CEST 2003


Thank you for expressng my feelings as well about GEM. I was really looking
forward to using pd but without GEM.....

Please hurry  Ben with that bleeding edge installation program. I am
definitely still waiting for it.

Inta

----- Original Message -----
From: J. Scott Hildebrand <jshildebrand at ucdavis.edu>
To: <PD-list at iem.at>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 8:18 PM
Subject: [PD] Pd and GEM installation woes


>
>      i consider myself pretty technically able. i've only started VC++ in
> windows so that's new territory for me, but i have a few years experience
> in linux programming, just school stuff though (nothing very deep).
>
>      getting GEM to work in either platform has been fucking hell. i
> realize it's a good idea to have every extention to Pd made available
> separately, but if I CAN'T GET THIS SHIT TO WORK, you can sure as hell
> believe that casual users won't be able to. i think this is all good
> software but it's just too hard to set up. i believe this stuff can go
> really far and its user base can get bigger and bigger, but there needs to
> be some ease-of-installation improvements.
>
>      for windows how about having an EXE file that installs everything
> like a typical program would? i'm talking about Pd, GEM, all the
> extentions like GrIPD, IEMLIB, GGEE, and ZEXY. still make the individual
> parts available to install the old way as well... for purposes unknown and
> the obvious one of portability; if you want to run pd on a PDA or
> something and definitely don't need other useless stuff.
>
>      for macOS have a same sort of EXE and do the same stuff in linux via
> the typical .compile and .configure stuff. good idea???? YES!!! do it! i
> would except i don't know how.
>
> your friendly but irritated visionary,
>
> scott
>
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