[PD] Pd packaging on osx was: Re: [PD-announce] [osx] pd++0.39-1Beta available

[Lorenz Schori]

hi

different pd versions: actually i wonder how pd/linux deals with this  
problem. does msp version look into other paths as devel? are they  
configured at runtime? i thougth about an additional standard path in  
osx determined at compile time from the version information (like "~/ 
Library/Application Support/Pd/0.39-msp/extra" + "~/Library/ 
Application Support/Pd/0.39-msp/doc").
fink: i think it would be easy to just pack debians and throw it into  
fink. for advanced users (with several pd versions/flavours) this  
would be fine. however the advantage of the pd.app is that pd files  
get double-clickable on desktop and messing around with the command  
line will not be nessesary. i think for most osx users it would be  
comfortable to just link the externals statically with the requred  
libraries.
flext: i don't know if this is possible and i'm not sure if this  
makes sense: how about just linking flext statically into pd binary?  
if i have to compile flext for each pd version/flavour anyway i don't  
see a drawback to just include it (appart from eventual stability  
issues).

lorenz

Am 24.10.2005 um 17:33 schrieb Frank Barknecht:

> Hallo,
> Lorenz Schori hat gesagt: // Lorenz Schori wrote:
>
>
>> it is certainly not the goal to make things more complicated nor to
>> include less stuff. what i propose is just to move the externals out
>> of the package into a more accessible, managable and natural (for osx
>> users) place, plus to modularize externals a bit (standard/gem/pdp/
>> flext/...). this way it will be easier to upgrade pd and different
>> external packages independantly from each other.
>>
>
> But is there a way to handle dependencies as cleanly as e.g. Debian
> does it? For example you would need different flext packages for
> pd-devel and ps-MSP, IIRC. Some externals which use private headers
> may need to be recompiled for a a new upstream version. With a single
> package it is easy for Mac users to get matching versions of
> everything.
>
> I guess it would be the best to get in contact with the Fink team and
> provide regular Fink packages of Pd and Pd externals?
>
> Ciao
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
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