[PD] mapping: path setting hell

[cyrille henry]

Luigi a écrit :
> Hey List.
>     not wanting to offend anybody. But this has some good amount of 
> absurdity in it, i think.
> And for any Newbie following that its actually quite frightening.
> 
> Frank calls his way of doing "hell" and it only includes 3 steps.
it's not the steps the problem, the problem come from what is imply by this step.
 
> And Hans Christoph calls his way "easy" and it includes 10 steps ....
> 
;-)

> .... monster monster-hell......
> 
> Another thing i always found strange about tthe mapping-collection. If 
> you want to use the helpfiles
> in one of your patches and actually use more then one you get into 
> conflicts
i don't understand what you want to do, can you elaborate?

> 
> What needs to be done to restructure mapping ?? I could help maybe, 
> because its a library i used very often and found
> it very useful. I would be happy to do something good to that library ;-)

the problem is not human resource for restructuring this lib.

it's just that Franck and I did not share the same way of thinking than hans.

Cyrille

> 
> All the Best
> 
> Luigi
> 
> Am 06.04.2009 um 15:58 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
> 
>>
>> On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>> Hallo,
>>> Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1) SVN/externals - otherwise [center_point] isn't found
>>>> 2) SVN/externals/mapping - to find [mapping/reverse] and
>>>> [mapping/disjoin]
>>>
>>> These two were meant to have reversed reasons.
>>
>> Hmm, because you are doing it wrong?  Try this:
>>
>> 1. create a single place to store externals, I recommend ~/pd-externals/
>> 2. add it to your path
>> 3. cd /path/to/pure-data/trunk/abstractions/
>> 4. cp -a purepd ~/pd-externals
>>
>> (mapping is still poorly organized in SVN, so its a bit harder)
>>
>> 5. cd /path/to/pure-data/trunk/externals/mapping
>> 6. mkdir ~/pd-externals/mapping
>> 7. cp -a *.pd ~/pd-externals/mapping
>> 8. cd help
>> 9. cp -a *-help.pd ~/pd-externals/mapping
>> 10. touch ~/pd-externals/mapping/mapping-meta.pd
>>
>> That's it.  Then if you have the libdir.pd_linux loader loaded, you 
>> can also load that as a lib using any of the standard methods.  
>> (you'll need the libdir.c from SVN).
>>
>> pd -lib libdir -lib mapping
>> declare -lib mapping
>> import mapping
>>
>> .hc
>>
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