On Thursday, Apr 8, 2004, at 09:28 America/New_York, James Tittle II
wrote:
On Apr 8, 2004, at 4:39 AM, guenter geiger wrote:
A Mac user suggested that it would be more "mac like" to put the whole Pd distribution into one single Application directory instead of using the unix file system standard.
I think technically it is feasable, what do you think about producing the Mac packages that way ?
hey guenter,
...yeh, not only desirably and technically feasable, but already done
several times over ;-) I came up with "pd++.app" (
http://homepage.mac.com/tigital ) because pd needed to be correctly
registered with the window manager in order to get window events
working when using Gem (think dragging the gemwin around, grabbing the
mouse/keyboard)...it also has a popup text entry to allow entry of
flags at startup (but this seems to bork the .pdrc
functionality)...anyway, it was just a sketch to get the gem stuff
correct......more promising is stuff like uPDated, which is a wrapped up version
of impd ( http://pure-data.iem.at/Members/gerard/uPDated ) using a
script building application called Platypus...this is really the way
to go, I think, because it now allows tcl/tk/wish shell to be bundle
inside also, so you really have a "place anywhere" double clickable
application...well, ya still need to have the documentation/example
patches somewhere......I plan on making a standalone app the "platypus" way, kinda like a
"tigital distro", with gem and stuff I use...
How about working with me to include Gem/etc in the standard distro?
Having one working distro would be much better than three half-working
distros. On a basic level, Gem just needs to be able to be compiled on
via a Makefile issuing commands. Then the whole thing can be built by
typing "make darwin_app". I've got almost everything in the Pd CVS
working in this way, it would be great to have Gem added to this.
.hc
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