<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Fwiw, i will do my best to make py/pyext (among my other externals) available through deken.<div class="">best, Thomas</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 08.12.2015 um 06:46 schrieb William Huston <<a href="mailto:williamahuston@gmail.com" class="">williamahuston@gmail.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Monday, December 7, 2015, Dan Wilcox <<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" class="">danomatika@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">> In 2016 it will be *trivial* to install a scripting language external such as pdlua via the deken plugin which will be included in the next Pd vanilla version release …<br class=""><br class="">I will be interested in seeing how this works. <br class=""><br class="">Since Perl is my favorite, I was just thinking today about something like "mod_perl" for Apache, but for PD-- a persistent Perl program which PD can pass of certain tasks to. <br class=""><br class="">Things like complex data structures (associative arrays, or multi-dimensional arrays) and regular expression parsing I find is so much easier in Perl (but I'm only about 1.5 years into PD, so there are likely many cool tricks I haven't learned yet). <br class=""><br class="">I'm thinking about implementing my Chord Library gizmo in Perl, but I don't want to pay for the overhead of invoking the Perl compiler with each [shell]. <br class=""><br class="">For now, I'm considering just starting my Perl agent as a daemon, and communicating to PD via local sockets... <br class=""><br class=""><br class="">> --------<br class="">> Dan Wilcox<br class="">> @danomatika<br class="">> <a href="http://danomatika.com/" class="">danomatika.com</a><br class="">> <a href="http://robotcowboy.com/" class="">robotcowboy.com</a><br class="">><br class="">> On Dec 7, 2015, at 2:23 PM, <a href="mailto:pd-list-request@lists.iem.at" class="">pd-list-request@lists.iem.at</a> wrote:<br class="">> From: Lorenzo Sutton <<a href="mailto:lorenzofsutton@gmail.com" class="">lorenzofsutton@gmail.com</a>><br class="">> Date: December 7, 2015 at 2:23:40 PM MST<br class="">> To: <a href="mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at" class="">pd-list@lists.iem.at</a><br class="">> Subject: Re: [PD] get filenames from directory<br class="">><br class="">><br class="">> On 07/12/15 17:26, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:<br class="">><br class="">> It's not possible with Vanilla objects.<br class="">><br class="">> In 2016 it would really be nice for Pd *Vanilla* to allow *natively* the use of some scripting language. My personal fav would be Python, but I'd be happy with anything really...<br class="">><br class="">> After the heated debates about luscious beizer curved chords and gradients in 2013, I this is still miss this feature more than any sexy GUI - :-)<br class="">><br class="">> Lorenzo.<br class="">><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">--<br class="">
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be happy and free from suffering :)<br class="">
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