----- Original Message -----
> From: Simon Wise <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc:
> Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2012 2:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] finding objects ?
>
>>>> I can update vcf~ in the PDDP docs at some point, but aside from
> that what
>>>> do you have in mind?
>>>
>>> Multi-dimensional indexing whose data can be easily referenced by
> multiple
>>> features (object search, auto-completion, maybe other)
>>>
>>
>> How will multiple dimensions help users find something that isn't
> there?
>
> exactly ... to find details of what is on your machine depends on how
> consistently those things you happen to have installed are documented ... and
> some people are making efforts to document a subset of what is available
> consistently, but even covering just what is in the extended archives is a
> huge,
> never ending job.
>
> to find what is available on the www you need to rely on google or similar,
> this
> list, the wiki etc ... depending where the author has mentioned it ... and
> details and documentation will never be consistent, so indexing that usefully
> is
> difficult.
>
> An effort to package a collection of useful objects in a consistent and
> indexed
> way has been happening in the debian repositories ... even if you don't use
> debian or one of its derivatives (even if you don't use linux) this is a
> useful, consistent resource with the sources, dependency information,
> descriptions and various interfaces and indexes for searching it, mirrored on
> fast mirrors all over the place, archived, built and tested (for linux) on
> lots
> of architectures and against lots of other software. That infrastructure
> would
> be impossible to maintain for Pd alone.
People shouldn't have to rely on debian repositories to find objects that are
sitting there on their machine.
-Jonathan
>
> Simon
>
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