OK, I updated the [pool] entry in pdpedia a little, to reflect that it's a flext-based object, distributed w/ PD-extended (releases only), and pointed to Thomas' website.
Phil Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > This stuff definitely should be in pdpedia. I encourage everyone to > contribute to pdpedia, you don't even have to log in to edit the > pages. Plus it would really help if we heard from people outside of > the usual suspects in things like the pdpedia. ;) More perspectives > means a richer community. :) > > .hc > > > On Jan 1, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Phil Stone wrote: > >> It's not as obvious as you might think from the archive. I searched >> quite a while before I posted my question. One would have to know to >> search on "flext + pd-extended" to find the threads you're >> indicating. Someone looking to use Memento (which requires [pool]), >> might not know this whole history about incompatible build systems >> for flext-based objects, and its implications for using [pool]. >> >> I'm in no way complaining about PD-extended and all the work that has >> gone into it, neither am I dissing the wonderful [pool] (or other >> flext objects) -- I realize there's no simple solution here, either. >> It's just another obstacle to building objects that non-PD/SVN >> experts can use, however. For instance, I'd like to upgrade my >> [polywavesynth]'s state-saving from sssad to Memento (since I'm >> already OSC-enabled) -- but this will complicate distribution greatly. >> >> Thanks again for the pointer to the binaries, Thomas. Getting some >> of the "everybody already knows this" knowledge about flext-based >> objects into PDPedia would be very helpful. >> >> >> Phil >> >> >> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> >>> flext-based things are not built from source as part of >>> Pd-extended. Binaries are only included in the releases. Check the >>> archives about this, there is lots of discussion. >>> >>> .hc >>> >>> On Jan 1, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Phil Stone wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Hans, >>>> >>>> I may be misunderstanding, but are you saying it's in the >>>> officially released version of PD-extended, and not the nightly >>>> builds? (If so, why?) >>>> >>>> I plopped the darwin [pool] binary Thomas pointed at into my >>>> "flatspace" dirctory (is there a better place?), and so far, so >>>> good. Now to figure out Memento and rradical! >>>> >>>> >>>> Phil >>>> >>>> >>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 1, 2008, at 2:33 AM, Thomas Grill wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> I can't seem to find [pool] in my latest download of PD-extended >>>>>>> (0.40.3-extended-20071204, Intel Mac). I see help files and >>>>>>> some docs >>>>>>> for it, but no PD object -- is there an OS X i86 version of it >>>>>>> in any of >>>>>>> the builds, or am I looking in the wrong place? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, up-to-date versions of all my externals for Windows and OSX >>>>>> (UB) can be found at >>>>>> http://grrrr.org/ext/beta >>>>> >>>>> You could also just copy the binaries out of the Pd-extended >>>>> release, if you want that specific version. >>>>> >>>>> .hc >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 'You people have such restrictive dress for women,’ she said, >>>>> hobbling away in three inch heels and panty hose to finish out >>>>> another pink-collar temp pool day. - “Hijab Scene #2", by Mohja Kahf >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >>> I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have >>> three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their >>> minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. - >>> Martin Luther King, Jr. >>> >>> >>> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list