[PD] libdirs and search-plugin

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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On 2012-03-19 21:03, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> Yes, in scripts/ in pure-data SVN.  You're best bet for getting Gem to accept the meta files is to submit them to the pd-gem tracker.  For this release of Pd-extended 0.43, Gem is already imported into the pd-extended/0.43 branch in SVN, so you can commit directly there.
> 

while of course i have no problem with including a Gem-meta.pd, i think
i remember that there where problems related to that simplistic approach.

Gem (as is and will stay for the foreseeable future), is a
single-binary-multiple-object library.
adding a "Gem-meta.pd" will make [import Gem] search for and find
"Gem/Gem-meta.pd" and happily report the Gem libdir(!) to be loaded
while this is really not enough to make Gem do anything at all.
I assume that people will then complain that Gem is "broken" because it
doesn't work even though [import] reports it should, while really only
the import mechanism cannot deal with Gem's reality.

my suggestion to make the -meta.pd patches something like proper
"__init__" thingies, allowing a library to bootstrap itself where
unfortunately turned down (i'm sure for good reasons).

so this is the reason why there is no Gem-meta.pd (yet).
if my assumptions above are not true or don't matter, i guess there is
no reason to not add it.

fgmadr
IOhannes
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