[PD] Pdpedia and random generation
Frank Barknecht
fbar at footils.org
Thu Apr 9 15:14:28 CEST 2009
Hallo,
dmotd hat gesagt: // dmotd wrote:
> i am not at all convinced that pdpedia/mediawiki serves as a good
> method for object reference. it is difficult to maintain (a lot of
> manual copy and paste), its search/sort functionality is limited,
> the up/down stream api is severely lacking and most of all it is
> difficult to integrate it into a pd environment (outside of simple
> pddp links which are usually inside the object reference anyhow).
I believe, reference documentation belongs into the code and additional display
methods should be generated from that. What's currently useful in pdpedia
mostly was generated by a script, but a year or so ago and it may already be
outdated or referring to objects not available anymore (i.e.
http://wiki.puredata.info/en/mapping/degrees0x2d0x3emapping)
Ciao
--
Frank
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