--- On Tue, 6/28/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> wrote:
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> > Subject: Re: [PD-dev] packaging the pddp docs > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com> > Cc: pd-dev@iem.at > Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 7:20 PM > > On Jun 28, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm already kind of doing that with pd-l2ork. > >> I've revised Miller's > >>> control/audio/ds tutorials. Pd-l2ork has > fixed > >> the crasher bug when > >>> a patch closes itself, so I've got a > navigation > >> toolbar in those > >>> tutorials > >>> that is currently incompatible with > >> pd-extended/vanilla. > >> > >> I had no idea. Ico seems to work on his > own. It > >> would be great to > >> have those bug fixes submitted to the patch > tracker. > >> The patch > >> tracker is what Miller, IOhannes, Martin Peach, me > and > >> others use for > >> keeping track of patches that are meant to go > into > >> pure-data core. > > > > He's also working off 0.42 currently, so submitting to > the > > tracker would be pointless. I think someone was > working > > to port the changes forward to 0.43, but Ico is > currently > > on vacation and I'm not sure where they are in the > process. > > I merged in a couple things from l2ork, like Joe Sarlo's > Magic Glass and inlet/outlet highlighting. More > patches would be great to have. As far as I understand there are a lot of changes in Pd-l2ork to core Pd, and if you accepted them into Pd-extended it would introduce more discrepancies between vanilla and extended. If that's a possibility you'd entertain to get the some of the functionality that pd-l2ork adds, then I can help with this process. > > >>>> Its not a new project. I see it as a > better > >> representation > >>>> of what's currently happening. You > are doing > >> great > >>>> work with the PDDP docs, I think we can > make the > >> structure > >>>> of that project work better for you. > Having > >> it as a > >>>> distinct entity means you are less > encumbered by > >> others when > >>>> making decisions about what should happen > with > >> PDDP. > >>>> That distinct entity can be either a > folder in the > >> pure-data > >>>> SVN, a separate SourceForge project, or > whatever > >> we think is > >>>> easiest. I think one of the first > two > >> options would > >>>> work well. > >>>> > >>>> I'm happy to do all of the Debian > packaging, that > >> part > >>>> would be easy for me. > >>> > >>> So what is it you want me to do? > >> > >> To start with, choose a repository to work out > of. > >> Shall we just > >> reorganize the doc/pddp folder in pure-data > SVN? Then > >> make that the > >> home of your PDDP work, and I'll package it for > Debian, and > >> make sure > >> the new layout works in Pd-extended. > > > > That works. Should it be merged with the current > pddp libdir? > > No, the 'pddp' lib is a standard Pd library of objects > meant to support documentation. The idea of this chunk > is a collection of reference and tutorials. What if, > for now, we make doc/pddp/tutorials and add > 2.control.examples, 3.audio.examples and 4.data.structures > there. Then keep reference patches in doc/pddp for now > while we figure out the best place for them. > > It might make sense, for example, to keep the reference > patches in the 'vanilla' libdir in externals/vanilla. > That's a library of all the vanilla core objects split out > into a library. But its probably not quite yet time to > do this, since that library is only vaguely defined now. > > .hc > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all > others of exclusive property, it is the action of the > thinking power called an idea, which an individual may > exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but > the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the > possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess > himself of it. - > Thomas Jefferson > > > _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list Pd-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev