Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
What I meant is that pd-extended would be a debian package with everything but Pd itself in it. Then you would be free to install pd-extended in combo with the Pd of your choosing. There would be some problems with compatibility with some of the features of pd-devel if externals are using them, but other wise it would work. Maybe there could be a debian package of just all of the Pd-based files, like abstractions and doc, then the compiled stuff would be separate.
Which reminds me: Debian's policy handles documentation in some special way, which I need to read up on, but things like html-docs, pdf-Howtos etc. should be in /usr/share/doc/pd-something, whereas we can keep the patches in /usr/lib/pd/doc. Moving the files with Debian's package tools is easy, however if they are called from Pd (like the html-manual) we need to take special care. Though, for now I would be happy to get a current package of pd with externals running, wherever the docs show up in the end.
Ciao
It might be better to have every pd distibution have the same directory strucure under pd/ and then add symlinks/aliases/shortcuts in system-specific directories according to the particular distribution for a particular setup of a particular operating system operated by a particular human with particular taste in directory structure that day.
Martin