[PD] Pd-extended 0.43.1 beta builds

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

When you get a "couldn't create" in a help patch, that's a bug that should be filed in the tracker.  Even better, attach the fixed help patch.

.hc

On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:01 AM, m.e.grimm wrote:

> ok... maybe i spoke to fast regarding "many/most"
> 
> sorry.
> 
> im on osx and i think i was specifically talking about Gem help
> patches witch i forgot to mention.
> 
> so yes... "many/most" Gem help patches cant create object out of the box....
> 
> some in some other libs too... sfruit, zexy (needs [import
> hexloader]?, some others....
> 
> m
> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: m.e.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com>
>>> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>> Cc: Pd List <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:25 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43.1 beta builds
>>> 
>>> hey Hans,
>>> 
>>> I am just wondering. As far as all the help patches go in extended,
>>> especially for teaching purposes and also "out of the box", are we
>>> planning on implementing [import] in all patches in final release?
>>> Many (most) help patches get ".. couldn't create" out of the box
>>> from
>>> PD help browser.
>> 
>> All objects in the help patches I sampled from the doc browser got
>> created correctly on Debian Wheezy 64-bit.  (Tried patches from
>> cyclone, mapping, and several other libs.)
>> 
>> Which help patches give you these errors, and on which OS?
>> 
>>> 
>>> And I agree with the whole using [import], [declare], [ggee/shell],
>>> etc thing to load libraries rather than the old plist way but then im
>>> sure your aware all the help patches will need to load these
>>> libraries....
>>> 
>>> just thought I would ask what the plan is on that...
>> 
>> Libdir help patches don't need any changes since they are located
>> in the same directory as the binaries for the classes they reference.
>> 
>> References to objects in other libraries are made with the pddp/helplink
>> object in the form of [pddp/helplink lib/objectname].
>> 
>> There may be stray externals in some supplementary help patches like
>> tutorials in the form [objectname].
>> 
>> -Jonathan
>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> m
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>  At this point, the Pd-extended 0.43.1 builds are definitely beta quality.
>>>  I have fixed all bugs that I could find, and I just taught a class with it.
>>>  Its working well.  Please try it out with your patches and let me know what you
>>> find:
>>>> 
>>>>  http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/
>>>> 
>>>>  .hc
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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