On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:02:15PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:20 PM, Chris McCormick wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:53:14PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > >>Hallo, > >>IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > >>>2: don't use the full Pd-extended but strip it down to your needs (i > >>>personally use a barebone Pd and add 3 or so libraries - i still > >>>have an > >>>overview about what is loaded...) > >> > >>I'm sometimes thinking about making a pd-condensed fork of pd- > >>extended > >>which includes only externals and abstractions without > >>nameclashes. ;) > > > >Same here! It would be good to have a distribution with a maintainer > >who is slightly less conservative than Miller about what goes in, > >but still keep it really tight. Maybe it would also be cool to see a > >"democratized" version of Pd where externals and libraries must be > >first > >nominated and then voted in by some requisite number of positive > >votes. > >For this to work I think we'd need to have people for each major > >GNU/Linux > >distribution who would do the work of the actual packaging and > >submission, > >separate to the building (My aims are totally selfish - I'd love to be > >able to apt-get install this). > > > >Even more talking with no action (sorry Roman), > > Check out my posts about a new ./configure based system for building > externals and custom distros, it would allow us to all work together. > > http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-03/060833.html > > This is all fine as long as it doesn't introduce incompatibilities > and organizes the libraries so that it is compatible with pd-extended > and pd-vanilla with libdirs. Otherwise, this project would just make > the situation worse, there would then be three distros with different > library layouts. We really don't need to return to the bad old days.
I agree it would be a huge waste and duplication of effort to not use all the work you have done in pd-extended. Maybe it would be cool to use the work you have done as a sort of meta distribution from which a custom Pd could be built. > I've been thinking more along these lines with Pd-extended anyway. > What needs to happen is to establish a standard library format, then > people can distribute the librs themselves, and they'll work with any > Pd. libdir is almost there, there I am going to try to finish it > this month, adding support for embedded help files and examples. Sounds interesting! Unfortunately I won't be contributing anything significant to Pd until at least August, when my degree and contracts are finished. Thanks again for all your hard work! Best, Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
