Re: [Denemo-devel] draft of real-transposition script

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 09:00 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 15:48 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 08:18 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > I don't think so. I read it and I believe I understand. I am going
> to
> > > think about it and the re-usability of it and then push it to git.
> Is
> > > the xml around the scheme code hand written? 
> > No. You just put the scheme code in the scheme window then right
> click
> > on a menu item and choose "create new menu item here", this will
> create
> > the command at that point in the menu/file hierarchy. You then move
> it
> > to your git repository (from ~/.denemo/actions/menus) and do git
> add. (A
> > user would not be moving anywhere, they would probably just save the
> new
> > item as part of their default command set, but as a developer you
> have
> > to do that extra step. Eventually we would like the users to be able
> to
> > submit new commands to denemo.org).
> > 
> >  You don't have to stick with your choice of where to put it, you
> can
> > invent a new directory to put it in (which will cause a new menu to
> > appear). Or even a new hierarchy of directories. Choose the names
> > carefully, as they will appear as menu names.
> > 
> > If you have time, can you look into the question of putting the same
> > command in more than one place? For example, the CheckPitches
> command is
> > a MIDI input filter and that is where I have checked it in to git
> > (actions/menus/MainMenu/EntryMenu/MIDI/CheckPitches, but someone
> might
> > expect to find it in Educational. You can copy the same file into
> two
> > places, and I think this will result in one command (but I am not
> sure,
> > it may need fixing); but can you create a link (symbolic or hard?)
> and
> > still install it with the final .deb packager. 

> And will it all work?

********* note this question!!! *******
> 
> The debian packager would use dh_link to set up the links when
> packaging. I just read up on this. Also autotools will set the links
> when doing a make install with something like this in the Makefile.am
> 
> install-data-hook:
> $(LN_S) $(DESTDIR)/actions/menus/MainMenu/EntryMenu/MIDI/CheckPitches
> $(DESTDIR)/actions/menus/MainMenu/Educational
> 
> A line like this would be entered for each link and the debian
> packager
> would have to set all these links with dh_link. 
> 
> I can get started on this. I will modify Makefile.am and push this 
Did you check that it will work for us? If you have the links in place
in /usr/local/share/denemo/actions/menus ... does the right-click notice
and offer to load the new menu item, and succeed, and put it in the menu
system where the link is, not where the orignal file is. (I expect it
all to be ok, are you proposing symbolic links?...)
Richard