Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > Hey, > > So what should be the core mission of the pure-data repository? It > looks like it is time to have that discussion again. I see it as a > gathering of code and docs that are intended to be built using a > common build system (aka Pd-extended build system). > > As for Pd-extended, I think it is a mistake (almost all my fault) > including so many things in the package. It is now clear to me that > makes more sense to have a distro that includes only the very stable > libraries, then to make Pd fully support external libdirs, including > shared libs, help patches, example patches, manuals, etc.
I very very much like that idea! I think there should be a pd-distro where externals are only added if they are available on win, macos and linux and if they have manuals/helppatches support. and the whole distro comes with a toc and tutorials... count me in for that! marius. > > I think then there could be a simple distro system like Eclipse has > for managing plugins. (Basically, there is a simple format for > posting a library to a website. The user then adds the repo URL to > the program, which then has a browser for all available installation > options and updates). > > I guess this was a bit vague and wandering, but it seems that there > is a discussion that needs to be had. > > .hc > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > > Terrorism is not an enemy. It cannot be defeated. It's a tactic. > It's about as sensible to say we declare war on night attacks and > expect we're going to win that war. We're not going to win the war > on terrorism. - retired U.S. Army general, William Odom > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev > _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
