On Apr 12, 2008, at 12:51 AM, Chris McCormick wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:02:15PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner > wrote: >> >> On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:20 PM, Chris McCormick wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:53:14PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: >>>> Hallo, >>>> IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: >>>>> 2: don't use the full Pd-extended but strip it down to your >>>>> needs (i >>>>> personally use a barebone Pd and add 3 or so libraries - i still >>>>> have an >>>>> overview about what is loaded...) >>>> >>>> I'm sometimes thinking about making a pd-condensed fork of pd- >>>> extended >>>> which includes only externals and abstractions without >>>> nameclashes. ;) >>> >>> Same here! It would be good to have a distribution with a maintainer >>> who is slightly less conservative than Miller about what goes in, >>> but still keep it really tight. Maybe it would also be cool to see a >>> "democratized" version of Pd where externals and libraries must be >>> first >>> nominated and then voted in by some requisite number of positive >>> votes. >>> For this to work I think we'd need to have people for each major >>> GNU/Linux >>> distribution who would do the work of the actual packaging and >>> submission, >>> separate to the building (My aims are totally selfish - I'd love >>> to be >>> able to apt-get install this). >>> >>> Even more talking with no action (sorry Roman), >> >> Check out my posts about a new ./configure based system for building >> externals and custom distros, it would allow us to all work together. >> >> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-03/060833.html >> >> This is all fine as long as it doesn't introduce incompatibilities >> and organizes the libraries so that it is compatible with pd-extended >> and pd-vanilla with libdirs. Otherwise, this project would just make >> the situation worse, there would then be three distros with different >> library layouts. We really don't need to return to the bad old days. > > I agree it would be a huge waste and duplication of effort to not use > all the work you have done in pd-extended. Maybe it would be cool > to use > the work you have done as a sort of meta distribution from which a > custom Pd could be built.
That's the idea. As long as there is a common library format, then there won't be major compability issues between them. .hc >> I've been thinking more along these lines with Pd-extended anyway. >> What needs to happen is to establish a standard library format, then >> people can distribute the librs themselves, and they'll work with any >> Pd. libdir is almost there, there I am going to try to finish it >> this month, adding support for embedded help files and examples. > > Sounds interesting! > > Unfortunately I won't be contributing anything significant to Pd until > at least August, when my degree and contracts are finished. Thanks > again > for all your hard work! > > Best, > > Chris. > > ------------------- > http://mccormick.cx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- The arc of history bends towards justice. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list