[PD-dev] External Manager - Load my Externals

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think that LME in the form of a preferences panel is definitely worth 
pursuing.  Chances are that it would be included with Miller's 
preferences work if this works well.  I am also getting up to speed on 
Tcl, so I'll see what I can contribute.

.hc

On Monday, Jun 2, 2003, at 17:23 America/New_York, bbogart at ryerson.ca 
wrote:

> Thanks for the critisism Guenter,
>
> I agree, a preferences dialog is ideal (and what I want, and I'd start 
> writing it now If I knew enough about PD internals to do so).
>
> Yes you are right that a launcher shines when one worries about 
> libraries. Single externals have a lot of advantages, but can we get 
> rid of libraries altogether? Collections of related objects, like Gem 
> for example. The new chaos release will have code shared between the 
> objects. I guess the question is will the number of libs drop to some 
> amount small enough to be managable?
>
> different PD config files would be a great feature, very nice if a 
> menu of them came up when you start PD (if desired)
>
> Great that Miller is going this way, changing stuff on the fly 
> fantastic!
>
> So where does that leave us? There is still a need for such a program, 
> at least at this time. Is it worth the effort to develop it when it 
> would be phased out by PD functionality soon.. Well the hope is that 
> the code, or some part thereof, would end up being integrated into PD. 
> Another reason we're planning on using tcl.
> I think it would be valid to create the LME, if its code could be 
> resued in PD, and if it will be a year or more before on-the-fly 
> parameter changing and the death of massive lib mamagement.
>
> Just to focus the discussion one more time:
>
> The idea came up when Matt and I taught a PD workshop. We did the 
> installation of Gem as part of the workshop, and it was far beyond the 
> skills of most people interested in using the software, to add the 
> damn -lib Gem flag to the .pdrc (which is a painful file to edit 
> without terminal!) I myself tried talking through the shortcut 
> creation (under windows) process to one of the workshop memebers, it 
> took 30min!!!! and that was only one library...
>
> Is LME worth pursuing or not?
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: guenter geiger <geiger at xdv.org>
> Date: Monday, June 2, 2003 5:05 am
> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] External Manager - Load my Externals
>
>> Ok, some (critical) thoughts:
>>
>> * Preferences: again, a launcher is a bad idea IMO, it should be a
>>  preference dialog.
>>  Don't think about software being written once and then its done.
>>  If you have the launcher, you will want to have preferences sooner
>>  or later, ...
>>
>> * External loader comes from the concept of having libraries. I have
>>  mentioned several times that this is not a good way how to
>>  write externals, because it merely adds complexity in the
>>  build processes and uses up more RAM.
>>
>>  We should get rid of the concept of libraries. (Hide the "external
>>  loader" in a "advanced" tab if you like, but don't write a program
>>  that is an "external loader" above all).
>>
>> * Different configurations: I think this is a very good concept and
>>  should be easy to add by using different names for pd config files.
>>
>> Last but not least, Miller is already thinking about preferences,
>> expecially for audio settings, and changing them on the fly is not
>> too far away ...
>>
>> Guenter
>>
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