On Sep 6, 2010, at 3:11 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2010-09-05 05:47, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think it would be very useful to package up some of the handy loaders for Debian. I for one am planning on making a package for the libdir loader. The big question is how to package them. Should they be packaged up like a normal library? It would be nice if there was some kind of mechanism for having Pd automatically load the installed loaders if they are in a given folder. Something like /etc/apache/sites- enabled.
i think the puredata package in debian should follow the pd-vanilla package as closely as possible [*]. adding functionality for an autoloaded directory is definitely something that is beyond that (imho).
so i'd say: get the autoload-directory stuff into upstream.
in the meantime, loaders should be loaded like any other libraries (which they are).
if autoload-directory makes it into upstream, we can start talking about putting loaders into that. personally i think it's a bad idea (and i would probably not want to use that package myself then)
please remember that no package installs anything directly into /etc/apache/sites-enabled, it's the user who puts their configuration into it.
Why do you think having the ability to autoload loaders is a bad idea? I can't see a disadvantage, but I am not saying there couldn't be one. I would like to see it be possible to write Pd objects in a bunch of different langauges, then transparently use them as if they were any Pd object. Here's how I see it:
- there is a library of nice GUI objects using tclpd - that gets packaged up Pd-extended, Debian, pure:dyne, etc. - someone else goes looking for GUI objects and finds the niceGUIobjects lib - they [import niceGUIobjects] and try making objects - they get lots of errors in the Pd window and no GUI objects
Seems to me that for users, tclpd should already be loaded.
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