[PD] (netpd)U(Pd-extended), Pd-ext bug-tracker (was Re: elitism, software and academia)

[Roman Haefeli]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:21 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I think it should not be too hard to make netpd double-clickable with  
> no extra setup at all (setting .pdrc, etc.) without embedding it into  
> it's own Pd install.

but this works smoothly and i think it is the only option, so that
non-pd-users are willing install netpd.

>   The key is just trying it on other people's  
> machines, and finding the common access methods that work across OSes.

again, can you elaborate that a bit more? 

how can the startup-script be edited by a double click installer in a
manner, that it works with every pd-installation? 

the main problem i see here, that (in contrary to other programing
languages, if pd is considered as a programing language) pd lacks any
feedback about loaded pathes and externals. if there would be a way to
check within pd, if a certain external was loaded, a netpd-user would at
least know, why it does not work as expected. also for the other issue
with the netpd-path, using 'getdir' would be just a workaround, but not
the solution for the problem (since using additional externals in an
environment like pd increases the chance of having troubles anyway).
  
roman 




	
		
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