[PD] Why I don't like the new automagic

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think there is a ton of potential to the ideas in desiredata and  
things like the new editing tricks in pd-vanilla 0.42.  But they also  
have the large potential to cause harm to peoples' workflow.  I hope  
that this experience doesn't scare people off from experimenting with  
ideas for improving the editing environment.

That said, I think it is crucial to approach this in an open-ended  
manner with lots of people doing a wide range of experimentation.   
This is a central reason why I am involved in rewriting the GUI from  
scratch for pd-devel.   I want to make Pd's GUI easy to modify and  
extend.  That way we each person can add their own tricks and over  
time we'll figure out a grand scheme for how this should be  
incorporated into the main distros.

So on that note, I would like to encourage people to get involved with  
pd-devel.  I just set up nightly builds, so it should be much easier  
to try it out. There isn't a lot to see yet, unless you know the  
codebase well (the GUI is pure Tcl now, but still rough).  But soon  
we'll be at the place were it'll be easy to build on top off.  Right  
now, the next big step that needs to happen is that the various panels  
need to be tackled (Pd window, find, send message, preferences, etc.)

.hc

On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:52 AM, ydegoyon at gmail.com wrote:

> i think i already said these 'enhancements'
> were just a bad idea from the start
> ( see the status of desire data )
>
> xiaooo,
> sevy
>
>
> IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>
>> i agree wholeheartedly
>>
>> fgamsdr
>> IOhannes
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