[PD] standalone with preferences included on OSX?

enrike altern2 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 09:29:33 CET 2017


I know, but this is a teaching situation with very short time and 
non-technical students. I would like to be able to drop a version of PD 
with everything already included and setup so that we can straight away 
start patching

On og., 2017.eko urtren 12a 19:31, Christof Ressi wrote:
> I think a good way to distribute a project that should really work out
> of the box is to include all needed externals and abstractions within
> your patch folder (probably in subfolders to give it some structure) and
> then [declare] the relative paths inside your patch. Ideally you would
> even include Pd itself (the version you need) and make a script which
> loads your main patch with that local version of Pd.
>
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017 um 17:59 Uhr
> *Von:* "Alex Norman" <x37v.alex at gmail.com>
> *An:* pd-list at lists.iem.at, enrike <altern2 at gmail.com>, "the PureData -
> mailinglist" <pd-list at iem.at>
> *Betreff:* Re: [PD] standalone with preferences included on OSX?
> Since pd is open source you could always modify the defaults and make
> your own build but it shouldn't have to come to that.
> 100% portable.. I assume you're only targeting one os? Which one?
>
> For Mac I think you should be able to put your externals in extra
> (inside Pd.app <http://Pd.app>) and.. Can you use declare with stdpath
> to reference those?
>
> A three step process would probably be more educational though.. Install
> pd, copy all these externals to a given place, write this into pdrc..
>
> Alex
>
> On January 12, 2017 8:17:50 AM PST, enrike <altern2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     hi
>
>     I would like to have a version of PD with a set of externals and to be
>     able to pass that app to some students not needing to set the
>     preferences to load the externals in every machine (neither copy the
>     preferences file). I want it to be 100% portable.
>
>     I was reading this old post about something similar
>     https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-10/065691.html
>
>     Is it possible to achieve this nowadays?
>
>     thanks
>
>     enrike
>
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