[Fluxus] External Editor with OS X

[gabor papp]

please use reply all.

On 5/9/11 9:24 PM, Benjohn Barnes wrote:
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> On 9 May 2011, at 20:13, gabor papp wrote:
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>> hi Benjohn,
>>
>>
>>> I've found some documentation about PLT Scheme's module system
>>> [1], which seems helpful, but I'm not sure this will work for
>>> Fluxus, and
>> yes, it works. we have written several modules like this.
>
> Splendid, thanks.
>
>>> I don't know how to tell Fluxus where it should look for
>>> modules.
>> are you using the osx dmg or do you build fluxus yourself?
>
> I'm using the DMG. (version) at the fluxus console reports 4.2.3, and
> the creation date of the Fluxus app is 9th April 2011 (I thin that's
> when it was built, rather than when I installed it?).
>
i think it's the installation date. there's a more recent version:
http://fluxus.mndl.hu/fluxus-0.17-1.20110403git.mac_intel.10.5.dmg
but it still does not contain these modifications.

>> i recently added default user collects and material paths to git on
>> osx for the dmg, which includes Documents/Fluxus/collects to the
>> searchpath by default. let me know if you need a dmg that knows
>> this.
>
> That sounds useful, thank you. Is it possible for me to put something
> in to my .fluxus.scm that can tell Fluxus other places to look for
> modules too?
yes, this is what i did. something similar could be added to your 
.fluxus.scm. http://bit.ly/kRjVoV
if it does not work, i can build a new dmg for you and you can use 
Documents/Fluxus/collects.

>
>> if you build fluxus yourself and run it from the command line, you
>> can just load your module like this from the same folder as your
>> script is: (require "mymodule.ss")
>
> Perhaps I should do this? Is it a fairly easy build? I got the
> impression Fluxus has many external dependencies?
>
it depends. i believe the instructions are quite clear. i heard that 
it's even easier to build it if you have homebrew installed.

> Can the DMG App also be run from the command-line? I know that text
> mate, as an example, has a "mate" instruction that can be used to
> launch it from the command line.
>
not by default. it would require some tricks at the moment to do this.

> Thank you very much for your reply.
>
> Best regards, Benjohn
>