Here's something of a howto:
that looks promising
That can be easily fixed by specifying the path in the Makefile var "INSTALL_PREFIX". But this again makes a fixed location, so drag-n-drop installation would only work for one folder path, unless there is a way to use relative paths. I haven't tried that.
I think it's possible, but I'd love the possibility to throw new binaries inside as they are published
I would really like to be able to compile optimized versions. This would entail coming up with a standard scheme for all externals, etc. to use for optimization.
well, meanwhile we can try to automate the process somehow ...
I think that ~/Library/pd would be a good place for people to add the stuff they download later, but I think that all of Pd should be in one folder, /Applications/Pure Data.app for example, so that it can be dragged-n-dropped if need be. The installer is necessary to provide the UNIX/command line functionality, i.e. typing "pd" on the command line to launch, or using pdsend and pdreceive from the command line.
agreed. what about the .pd documents ? how do you associate them to the application and icon ?
gerard