[GEM-dev] adding exemple to gem

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 30, 2007, at 1:53 AM, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:

> Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>:
>
>>
>> On Dec 26, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>> Hallo,
>>> cyrille henry hat gesagt: // cyrille henry wrote:
>>>
>>>> I agree about the power of exemple.
>>>> BTW, i'd like to add the exemples i made for the graz conferences
>>>> (repeat,
>>>> LS, etc)
>>>> any objection?
>>>>
>>>> franck : can i also add your double-gemhead exemple?
>>>
>>> Yes, of course.
>>
>> Claude's gem recursion would be great to have in Gem example, like
>> examples/30.recursion.  What do you guys think?
>
>
> the more the merrier.
> however, i would prefer if no examples within the Gem-tree would
> depend on any external other than Gem.
>
>
> e.g. you can replace [repeat 5] by [t a a a a a].
>
>
> for stuff that has additional dependencies i would suggest to create a
> separate meta-directory parallel to the Gem-tree.
> (e.g. for gem+lua; gem+chaos,...)

I find it quite depressing that we can't get agreement on a standard  
way to distribute and use libraries (aka externals).  This really  
cripples the Pd community. Then we have to do things like organize  
examples around why libraries might be used rather than the concepts  
involved.

.hc

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