[PD] using namespace prefixes in a vanilla setup

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> On May 5, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Steffen Juul wrote:
>>
>> On 02/05/2009, at 3.31, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> So here's the solution i came up with, you
>>> make a 'lib' folder in your project, stick the libraries as folders  
>>> in
>>> 'lib', then use [declare -path lib].  Here's an example:
>>>
>>> http://puredata.info/Members/hans/vanilla_libdir.tar.bz2
>>
>> But what about "sorry, couldn't find help patch for "mapping/ 
>> curve.pd"" ?
>
>
> I should have said, due to bugs in [declare], this only works on GNU/ 
> Linux.  Since Miller uses Linux, I was assuming that its the reference  
> platform in terms of how [declare] works.  It currently works  
> differently/less on Mac OS X, for example.

What are these differences? In our RjDj sprints, most people use OS-X with no
problems, and on Linux, the help files still aren't found either - which is a
known issue of directory prefixes since ages: You have to set the help-path as
well.

>> But if libraries have complicated interdependencies or assume certain 
>> global
>> path layouts, then this approach fails, which was the case with the  
>> old mapping
>> files, at least partly.
>
> Part of my point with this examples is to show that you can have a  
> simple setup while using namespace prefixes in the project, libraries as 
> folders, and in the libraries that a project uses.  I couldn't find any 
> issues with the setup illustrated in that tarball, have you found some?

"mapping" still assumes that it is installed in a subdirectory called "mapping"
whose parent is in the search path. It's not possible for a user to just drop
the patches from "mapping" into her project folder directly or into a
differently named subdir made know with declare. A user has to mimick the
directory layout set in mapping. And do so for purepd as well. That's not a
problem with the tarball, it just a - deliberate - restriction of "mapping". 

Ciao
-- 
Frank