[PD] gridflow for expert people ?

[Jack]

Thank you Mathieu for these explanations, i will see that tomorrow.
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Jack


Le 10 déc. 07 à 02:13, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :

> On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Jack wrote:
>
>> OK, it seems that GF is a powerfull tool. But why there is no  
>> basic tutorial for beginner to install it ?
>> Because :
>
> You didn't have to paste the complete install.html text...
>
>> 1) Where to DL Ruby and how to install it (macosx) ?
>
> I installed it using Fink, perhaps, but if not, then http://ruby- 
> lang.org/ is the main site, as you can find immediately with Google.
>
>> 3) With Macosx, how to use Fink (what we do with it ?) what can we  
>> do with Fink to configure GF ?
>
> In Fink you find the packages that are listed exactly in that  
> section of install.html, you select them, and you click  
> "install" (or whatever they decided to call it)
>
>> 4) Set CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH : where is it and what is it ?
>
> All the "_PATH" things are environment variables. It's a pity that  
> none of the UNIX systems (OSX, Linux, etc) handle them  
> automatically, but at the same time it's the official way to  
> configure that kind of stuff. You will need to use the "export"  
> command of the shell.
>
>> 5) It's like chinese langage for me.
>
> You will need to learn a bit of shell language (the command  
> language normally used in the Terminal)
>
>> 7) And we save it on the desktop ?
>
> No, "~/" means Home folder, but I just removed step 7 because it's  
> obsolete. GF does it automatically.
>
>> 8) For linux only (equivalent for OSX ?)
>
> Perhaps that it would've been compilable for OSX, but we never  
> tried, and anyway we are removing LtiLib support in favour of OpenCV.
>
>> Note) On MacOS the dot-files are invisible in the Finder : are you  
>> sure ?
>
> Is there a Finder option to show dot-files? There's one on Linux.
>
>> Why GF is not include with pd-extended ?
>
> Long story. We couldn't agree on who should do that work, and in  
> the end, Alexandre Castonguay volunteered for that, but it's not  
> finished. Other reasons are that I wouldn't be allowed to bundle  
> Ruby with Pd-Extended, and that copying GridFlow from one CVS to  
> another was too complicated or boring. This is in the process of  
> getting solved, slowly.
>
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