Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-03-03 Thread João Pais
This would be a good place to start. I think having a [pd META] subpatch will make accurate parsing easier, and allow for other types of meta data to be easily added. That's what we did with the PDDP reference patch. but in case the externals get organised through function (instead of

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-03-03 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: (Well, it's also possible to just stop using help files, but 99% of the users would hate it) pdpedia is not meant to be help patches, instead it is info about the object and things like

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-03-03 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 3, 2009, at 6:10 AM, João Pais wrote: This would be a good place to start. I think having a [pd META] subpatch will make accurate parsing easier, and allow for other types of meta data to be easily added. That's what we did with the PDDP reference patch. but in case the externals

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-03-03 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: (Well, it's also possible to just stop using help files, but 99% of the users would hate it) pdpedia is not meant to be help patches,

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-03-03 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Perhaps you understand yourself, but help patches are meant to contain info about the object and in some cases it contains links to related pages. There's nothing about links that make them

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-03-02 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Frank Barknecht wrote: BTW: That is (and already was in the discussion about it at pd~conv Montreal) my main problem with pdpedia: IMO a Pd doc wiki takes the reference documention too far away from the files. I

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-28 Thread Luke Iannini
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, marius schebella wrote: Pd world series top 40 frank's special blend other utilities objects that might crash the ones I almost never use not allowed during war Other possible taxonomy: three

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-28 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Luke Iannini hat gesagt: // Luke Iannini wrote: I just took a look at Max/MSP and they have a nice tagging system, as well as an excellent configurable filter on their file browser that ends up being a pretty elegant solution to many of these problems. Perhaps going the route of adding

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-28 Thread marius schebella
Luke Iannini wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, marius schebella wrote: Pd world series top 40 frank's special blend other utilities objects that might crash the ones I almost never use not allowed during war Other

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-28 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
This would be a good place to start. I think having a [pd META] subpatch will make accurate parsing easier, and allow for other types of meta data to be easily added. That's what we did with the PDDP reference patch. As for tagging, as long as it is not too hard to add more tags later,

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-27 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
João Pais wrote: exactly. in the contrary of the before mentioned libraries, these are more groups of externals compassing different groups: glue, math, matrix, ... please someone explain to me the differences. this sounds all very nice on a piece of paper, but to which category does

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-27 Thread João Pais
Hi, João Pais wrote: exactly. in the contrary of the before mentioned libraries, these are more groups of externals compassing different groups: glue, math, matrix, ... please someone explain to me the differences. this sounds all very nice on a piece of paper, but to which category

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-27 Thread João Pais
One thing I was thinking about recently is whether we need a hierarchy of classes. In Object-Oriented Programming, there is hierarchy of classes as part of the basis of the language. There is no hierarchy of classes in Pd so it seems to me that there should also be no hierarchy in

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-27 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: i used [pix_sig2pix~] as an example about how categories often fail. it was the first object that came to my mind that clearly belongs into several categories at the same time. there are other objects (within zexy, vanilla, list-abs, creb,

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-27 Thread marius schebella
may I suggest the following category structure Pd world series top 40 frank's special blend other utilities objects that might crash the ones I almost never use not allowed during war ... marius. 2009/2/27 Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca: On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: i

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-27 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, marius schebella wrote: Pd world series top 40 frank's special blend other utilities objects that might crash the ones I almost never use not allowed during war Other possible taxonomy: three categories total: good/ bad/ ugly/ Other possible taxonomy: five

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-26 Thread marius schebella
hi, I doubt that these categories will be as hierarchical and structured as proposed here. for example the pdp objects, gridflow and gem(pix and particle+related objects) are good examples for libraries. but zexy and cyclone are libraries where even after so many years I still don't know what

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-26 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
One thing I was thinking about recently is whether we need a hierarchy of classes. In Object-Oriented Programming, there is hierarchy of classes as part of the basis of the language. There is no hierarchy of classes in Pd so it seems to me that there should also be no hierarchy in the

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Luke Iannini hat gesagt: // Luke Iannini wrote: is something like this possible: each developer drops his stuff in svn in the current structure, but when compiled all externals are divided into categories (e.g. like the above named)? each developer has his own corner to drop stuff,

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread cyrille henry
Luke Iannini a écrit : And, here's an example from my own sfruit/ collection: i try to make some correction to add somes stuff... gui/ (for extending, interacting with, or working around limitations of the IEMGUIs) ds-gui/ ds-abs/ input keyboard/ hid/ color/ control/

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread João Pais
just a couple fast general comments (must leave in 15m): - how about 3 (?) general categories, where everything else is organised? It might be easier to keep everything in mind. - glue/control - singal/audio - GUI (probably there are more main categories?) - maybe it's time easier to

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread cyrille henry
Frank Barknecht a écrit : ... There is one big problem to solve with reorganizing (which I'm generally in favour of): interdependencies between libraries. That's why [list]-abs deliberately avoids these completely and relies only on Pd-vanilla, but libs like RTClib or mapping etc. depend

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread Loic Kessous
On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:35 AM, João Pais wrote: just a couple fast general comments (must leave in 15m): - how about 3 (?) general categories, where everything else is organised? It might be easier to keep everything in mind. - glue/control - singal/audio - GUI (probably there

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread dmotd
a few years ago i started to scratch together a php/mysql based database for pure-data documentation, the project became eclipsed by the push to the wikimedia based pdpedia, so i didn't get much further than documenting vanilla objects, and integrating the csv doc by marius schebella. but the

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread cyrille henry
Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : On Feb 25, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Luke Iannini hat gesagt: // Luke Iannini wrote: is something like this possible: each developer drops his stuff in svn in the current structure, but when compiled all externals are divided

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I think you outlined the argument against this proposal with your zexy example. It doesn't sound like a real solution if you include one version of list-drip in the list-abs library because of technical

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Feb 25, 2009, at 1:51 PM, cyrille henry wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : On Feb 25, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Luke Iannini hat gesagt: // Luke Iannini wrote: is something like this possible: each developer drops his stuff in svn in the current

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I am bummed that we have to even discuss Apple's anti-free-software tactics in relation to the design of Pd. The only reason why you can't include externals as libdirs on the official iPhone is because of

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Feb 25, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I am bummed that we have to even discuss Apple's anti-free-software tactics in relation to the design of Pd. The only reason why you can't include externals as

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I am not talking about including files, I am talking about the forced static linking, i.e no dlopen(). It makes sense to me to not include 102 MB of files for rjdj, no complaints about that. Ah, okay, I

Re: [PD-dev] Proposals for object categories

2009-02-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Feb 25, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I am not talking about including files, I am talking about the forced static linking, i.e no dlopen(). It makes sense to me to not include 102 MB of files for