[PD] all externals

[Joseph Zitt]

FWIW, I'd like to see consistent documentation of the posted externals,
as possible.

The docs I wrote and posted a few days ago might serve as a template.
There would be clear information as to the external's inlets, outlets,
and arguments (something i realized after writing and posting those),
and a brief description of what it does. Such documentation would go a
long way toward helping users (especially new ones) wade through the
abundance of available objects to find the ones they need.

The documentation would also be quite useful for the built-in items,
since I've found going through the online help items a bit cumbersome. I
know someone here (I forget whom) is working on updating the help texts.
Perhaps these projects could work together.

Does that seem like a good idea? 

I could start soon on documenting some... after I finish driving
cross-country to move to Berkeley, CA, over the next couple of weeks.

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 16:00, Josh Steiner wrote:
> i do beleive that this is the goal of pure-data.org
> 
> On Wed, 29 May 2002, sme wrote:
> 
> > hi list,
> > i am living now with Pd for quite a long time. one of the bothersome things
> > is the search for externals, esp. for something like a general collection of
> > all externals...
> > sometimes new externals are only posted once and hidden on a website. (shame
> > on me, but i did´nt even realize that there was a iem-lib2).
> > so i would highly support any work that is done in this direction, to
> > collect, update and distribute externals for the different OS, maybe give
> > short description. once this is done, only new externals would have to be
> > added (which still is enough / to much work for one person). i think maybe
> > iem could do this, or pure-data.org, or i will do it myself, ... or was this
> > already done by someone?
> > sme.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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