I'm ready to add you, but I couldn't find your sourceforge account name. Can you send it?
.hc On Oct 31, 2011, at 9:44 PM, katja wrote: > Hello dev list, > > In recent months I changed some lines in Pd core code to make it > double-precision-compilable. I'd like to help a bit with making > Pd-extended ready for double precision as well. After puzzling on > repository layout and build system, and figuring out a decent test > method (together with Fred Jan Kraan), I am now ready to commit > rewritten lines for one external lib, creb. It is for this library > that I want to request commit access now, but it doesn't stop here. A > brief description of the project: > > Pd-double is a fork of Miller Puckette's Pure Data, patched with > mentioned double-ready lines. It has (and will continue to have) the > same API, apart from the option to compile in single or double > precision at will. Pd-double enables double precision builds of > vanilla Pd, and is tested to work well on OSX and Linux. I still have > to work on the Windows side of things. In the meantime Pd-double is > useful as a framework against which external libraries can be > developed towards double-readiness. A usable development setup is > described on http://puredata.info/dev/pd-double/PdDoubleDevelopment. > Convenient unit-test abstractions are introduced here: > http://www.katjaas.nl/pdunittests/pdunittests.html. I'd like to invite > all Pd-devs to join in. Rewriting and testing classes assumes a fair > knowledge of their functioning, and Pd-extended is huge. For me, doing > one lib at a time works well, thoroughly testing the whole of it > before committing. When starting on another lib, I'll ask commit > access again. I could also submit patch files instead, if that is > preferred in some case. > > A few words on my background so you know who's wanting to poke in your > code. During a one-year course at the Sonology Department of the Hague > Conservatory (Holland), I learned the basics of dsp math and > programming. That was 2007-2008, and I've never stopped music > programming since, documenting my efforts and experiments on > www.katjaas.nl. Pd has become my favourite environment, because of > it's open source and active community, and because I like how you can > prototype a neat audio tool quite fast, with GUI and all, while C code > is still an option to solve details. A few Pd-externals and projects > are shared online via mentioned site (nb 'slicycle' stuff and > [soundtouch~]). I teach Pd workshops sometimes. The > single-precisioness of Pd has been my only serious gripe. See > http://www.katjaas.nl/doubleprecision/doubleprecision.html for > illustrations of precision-bottlenecks. Working on this topic, I hope > to contribute to the wonderful tool and the community supporting it. > > Katja > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "[T]he greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is] my own government." - Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
