For what its worth, PDP/PiDiP has been included in Mac OS X and GNU/
Linux Pd-extended since 0.39.3, so no compilation instructions
needed. We do still need someone to write the docs. I don't think I
know enough to write more than a paragraph. Same goes with Gridflow,
in my book.
.hc
On Mar 27, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Derek Holzer wrote:
My thoughts exactly...document what people actually use most, in a
way which helps them to use it. As I said, if someone wants to go
through all the trouble of making a separate install guide for PDP
or Gridflow, I'd consider including it.
As it stands, however, both of these can change at any moment
depending on distros and dependencies.... on top of the fact that
they only run well on Linux + x86 architecture (PDP) or cannot be
compiled at all except on Linux (Gridflow). For me to accept them
into the FLOSS manual, the installation process must be completely
and reliably documented as well. No lazy "just compile it and cry to
the mailing list if it doesn't work" instructions which leave
newbies lost. Free software is only really free when you don't have
to be a computer programmer to get it working.
As it stands, I want to focus on accessibility first off. So cross-
platform + Pd Extended is the baseline for the FLOSS Manual, as it
has been from the beginning.
D.
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think it makes the most sense to focus on Gem since it is the
most widespread.
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