On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Marco Donnarumma wrote: > > Sadly it's too late to include Xth Sense to Pd-ext, I already ask for > the inclusion of PdMtl and Mtl Abstraction in the next Pd-ext (0.43). > > > ooh :/ > wow, PdMtl is out there since ages... > I always thought why it is not yet included.
One showstopper is that it relies on objects that are not included in Pd-extended (pool, last I checked). But mostly its because there has never been a proper versioned release. > Quoting Hans > " > ... > I think its too late for 0.43, but 0.44 is definitely possible. With > much less work, we can make it easy for people to find and install > themselves, and that takes effect once you do it. Only one small thing > has been added since November, so its in feature freeze. > > > I see, fair enough. But why it is such a hassle? > If the library is ready according to the community guidelines, is it still a > pain to include it? People have come to expect quite a bit of consistency with libraries in Pd-extended, and this consistency is cross-platform. Indeed this is a core goal of Pd-extended. That means that new libraries need to be checked so that they are known to work the same across all platforms that Pd-extended supports. It also means that every object included in Pd-extended will work with only Pd-extended, no external libraries required. And it means that every object has its own help patch, and so on, and so forth. If you think that getting into Debian/testing is hard, that is easier than it seems. The library template takes care of that for you, and I'm happy to sponsor/upload/maintain in Debian any Pd library that is based on the Library Template. > - Having it on github will make that a easier too. You don't need to > make release tarballs, for example, you can just tag a release in git, > ie "git tag v0.1", then github makes a link to a downloadable tarball. > > > Xth Sense is happily on github already. > > > - adding it to the puredata.info/downloads section will make it easy for > people to find > > - and making sure it works fine when you drop it into ~/pd-externals, > ~/Library/Pd, etc. > > did that to facilitate installation process during my workshop. > Will add it to downloads when it will be ready. Tag a release, and github will make a download link for you. Then you can add that to the downloads page. .hc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them, or perish. -William Carlos Williams
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