[Gridflow-dev] make install

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Alexandre Castonguay wrote:
> Le Samedi 14 Janvier 2006 00:10, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
> > let's have GF be compiled and run in the same
> > place, in lib/pd/extra/gridflow, what do you say?
> I don't know matju, what does it change?

Well, I was thinking about a few things:

1. don't install ruby files in the ruby directories because ruby users
   don't care about gridflow and because it's less troublesome to keep
   everything in the Pd side.

2. if (1) is done, then we may as well not install anything at all.  
   However this means setting a -path to GridFlow's abstractions because
   they won't get copied straight to lib/pd/extra; this might be better
   because it makes GridFlow easier to uninstall... and arguably, to
   install (hehehe). However gridflow.pd_linux has to figure out its own
   location so that it can find the rest of GridFlow. It would put that
   dir in the RUBYLIB envvar (which is the equivalent of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
   but for *.rb files).

A nice advantage of (2) is that abstractions can be edited by right-click 
"Open", saved, and then cvs commit, without having to worry about copying 
them back to the original directory, and not having them overwritten by 
the next "make install".

3. as an alternative to (1), GridFlow might bundle Ruby. This also
   requires gridflow.pd_linux to figure its own location so that it can
   find libruby.so, but it doesn't exclude a "make install" procedure.

4. Ideally I'd like to have the choice, either (1) and (2) together, or
   (3), but in any case, I'd ditch "make install". (I don't particularly
   believe in UNIX conventions anymore...)

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