Before you pay someone to do it, we need to define what it is.
It might generally look something like this:
1) Pull from the newest stable upstream code
2) Get it to compile
3) Run the regression tests
4) Make alpha and beta builds, gather reports of bugs, fix bugs, re-run tests
5) Release
So for Pd-extended, one would pull from the newest stable Vanilla source.
To complete #2 and #4, one need build environments for all of Pd-extended's
target platforms. Probably the easiest way to achieve that is to partner with
two other developers-- for example, if one uses Ubuntu, find an OSX person and
a Windows person who can build Pd on their respective OSes. (There are guides
on puredata.info about how to do this for each platform.)
Pd-extended doesn't have any tests AFAICT, so skip that step.
Kickstarter won't really help you here. It's possible that it would give some
incentive for doing a single release, but how can it sustain that work for the
next release, or the one after that?
-Jonathan
On Sunday, September 21, 2014 5:22 PM, me.grimm megr...@gmail.com wrote:
it involves time
... or money.
maybe we revisit the kickstarter (or something else) idea brought forth by
jonathon a few years ago and just pay someone to do it. to me it seems like 1)
none of us really have any money (im just assuming here we are all poor
artists) and more importantly 2) none of us really have any time and those that
do might not have the skills.
OR maybe we have another PDCon (remember that?) to get amped up and pump
something out
m
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Dan Wilcox danomat...@gmail.com wrote:
I talked to Hans about this a bit. In essence, it involves bringing in the new
pd vanilla source and making sure the Pd-extended additions/modifications
aren't lost. With the updates/cleanups to the tcl/tk sources a few years ago
(great work Hans et al!), it should be alot easier than the previous extended
releases. But still, *easy* or not, it involves time.
On Sep 21, 2014, at 6:00 AM, pd-list-requ...@lists.iem.at wrote:
From: Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PD] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Updated pd-extended
Date: September 20, 2014 at 5:02:59 PM EDT
To: Billy Stiltner billy.stilt...@gmail.com
Cc: pd-list@lists.iem.at pd-list@lists.iem.at
I wish I knew something about coding to help out with its development :P I do
care a lot about it though and wish I could help in some other way.
I do see a few problems with extended, but they're basically related to some
of the externals and libraries that sometimes do not work as they should,
have bad and messy help files and are sometimes redundanct. If welcome, I
could help sharing my thoughts and two cents about that, but I realize those
are not actual bug fixes regarding the code, so it's not a priority on its to
do list and issues for being updated to another release.
Anyway, while were at it, what kind of work exactly do you mean someone would
have to do? I suppose there is a great list of bug fixes just to keep it
basically what it is. Given the context, I'm not assuming any big to do list
for some new features agenda. But besidesthe bug fixes, how hard is it for
someone to just update to the latest vanilla core?
Well, since Pd is an open source project that relies on community effort, and
this is the list of its main developers and users, I guess this is the place
to talk about a collaboration and see if we can get Pd-extended's
developmentto continue.
I'd to help in any way I can.
Cheers
Dan Wilcox
@danomatika
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com
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