I support this idea, but I have to say the biggest challenge will be social, not technical. I think in order for it to succeed, you will have to submit things in small, incremental patches. I think that it would be best to work on the MAIN branch in CVS, i.e. Miller's branch. But you should also coordinate with the pd-devel people, so that merging the doesn't become more difficult.
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On Sep 11, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Vincent Lordier wrote: Hi enthusiasts devs !
I want to work on pd's code readability and structure, only refactoring, not adding new features. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refactoring )
The final goal is to make PD easy to scale (desactivate MIDI, Audio, Network, some CoreLibs, ...)
'We've got to undo the MIDI revolution! said Miller'
=> Well, as far as I know, removing MIDI from PD's hairy code isn't as easy as "./configure --nomidi' make install ... yet !
There is quite a bit to do in this area, some of it is just renaming, indenting, some of it might be "cleaning out" stuff.h to separate clearly MIDI, Audio, engine, GUI and CoreLibs.
Again, my goal is not to alter pd in its behavior (yet), nor optimizing anything (yet), just to improve readability and separation of modules.
Any help on this and / or pointers to previous work is welcomed :)
I want to make it easier for anyone to get into the code, to maintain it and to address issues like portability (from embedded - PDa-like or even tinier - to bigger systems).
BUT my main problem right now is : on which version / branch should I work on ?
Why isn't the last 0.40-0test7 into CVS ? Are there other repositories, and where are they, what are their goal and who maintains them ?
This is a bit confusing to me : could you explain to me, shortly, what's going on around PD devs ?
I'll start by submitting little patches btw.
thx a lot
vincent
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