[PD] official Pd package (Miller!)

[Miller Puckette]

The space is OK in the path to Pd, but you can't have spaces in the
search path for abstractions, etc. (I want to fix this someday but haven't
figures out a good attitude to have about quoting/escaping)

cheers
Miller

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:26:41AM -0400, shreeswifty wrote:
> i must say i never put pd in program files because of the space. i always
> put it right on C:\ but that might be unneeded now
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pd-list-admin at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-admin at iem.at]On Behalf Of
> Hans-Christoph Steiner
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:44 AM
> To: huolong at arcor.de
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Subject: Re: [PD] official Pd package (Miller!)
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, Oct 24, 2003, at 06:48 America/New_York, huolong at arcor.de
> wrote:
> 
> > hi miller,
> >
> > i typed "c:\pd" as extraction-path (the self-extracting pd package for
> > windows from your site) and it extracted it to "c:\pd\pd"
> >
> > this is not the way we are used on windows, could you please correct
> > this.
> >
> > or
> >
> 
> Yes, this breaks with the past, but I think this is the way things
> should go.  Pd should be made to behave like a native app on each
> platform.  On Windows, programs are installed in Program Files, so Pd
> should be also.
> 
> > if this is intentional (also for long term), let me know and i mention
> > it in my (upcoming) tutorial that it extracts to a folder named "Pd"
> > inside the path what you type in the extraction path.
> >
> With Miller's 0.37 installer and my 0.37 installer, you don't need to
> know where to put Pd in order to install it.  Both installers
> automatically install into a default location.  I don't remember, is
> your tutorial online somewhere?  It would great to have in on
> pure-data.org.
> 
> .hc
> 
> > thank you
> > -andre
> >
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